Java XML Node to String toString(Node node)

Description

to String

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static String toString(Node node) 

Method Source Code

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import java.io.StringWriter;

import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;
import javax.xml.stream.events.XMLEvent;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;

import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;

import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class Main {
    private static final TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();

    public static String toString(Node node) {
        final Transformer identityTransformer;
        try {
            identityTransformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Failed to create identity transformer to serialize Node to String", e);
        }
        identityTransformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");

        final StringWriter outputWriter = new StringWriter();
        final StreamResult outputTarget = new StreamResult(outputWriter);
        final DOMSource xmlSource = new DOMSource(node);
        try {
            identityTransformer.transform(xmlSource, outputTarget);
        } catch (TransformerException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Failed to convert Node to String using Transformer", e);
        }

        return outputWriter.toString();
    }

    public static String toString(XMLEvent event) {
        final StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
        try {
            event.writeAsEncodedUnicode(writer);
        } catch (XMLStreamException e) {
            writer.write(event.toString());
        }

        return writer.toString();
    }
}

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