Java XML Node to String xmlToString(Node node)

Description

convert an xml document to a string

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
node	document node

Return

a string representation of the xml document

Declaration

public static String xmlToString(Node node) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.io.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;

public class Main {
    /**
     * convert an xml document to a string
     * 
     * @param node
     *            document node
     * @return a string representation of the xml document
     */
    public static String xmlToString(Node node) {

        return xmlToString(node, "UTF-8");
    }

    /**
     * convert an xml document to a string
     * 
     * @param node
     *            document node
     * @return a string representation of the xml document
     */
    public static String xmlToString(Node node, String encoding) {

        String retXmlAsString = "";

        try {
            Source source = new DOMSource(node);
            StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
            Result result = new StreamResult(stringWriter);
            TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, encoding);

            transformer.transform(source, result);
            retXmlAsString = stringWriter.toString();

            // for some reason encoding is not handling entity references - need
            // to look in to the further
            retXmlAsString = retXmlAsString.replace("&nbsp;", "&#160;");

        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (TransformerException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return retXmlAsString;
    }
}

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1. xmlToStreamE(Node n, OutputStream os)
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4. xmlToString(Node node)
5. xmlToString(Node node)
6. xmlToString(Node node)