Java XML Node to String xmlToString(Node node)

Description

Purpose:Converts an XML Document to a String Object

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
node	a parameter

Exception

Parameter	Description
TransformerException	an exception

Declaration

public static String xmlToString(Node node) throws TransformerException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.io.StringWriter;

import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Result;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMResult;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class Main {
    /**
     * 
     * <B>Purpose:</B>Converts an XML Document to a String Object
     * 
     * @param node
     * @return
     * @throws TransformerException
     */
    public static String xmlToString(Node node) throws TransformerException {
        if (node == null) {
            return "";
        }
        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.INDENT, "yes");
        transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "2");
        transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xalan}line-separator", "\n");
        transformer.setOutputProperty("omit-xml-declaration", "yes");
        transformer.transform(source, result);
        return stringWriter.getBuffer().toString();
    }

    /**
     * 
     * <B>Purpose:</B> XML transformation using XSL
     * 
     * @param doc
     * @param xslInput
     * @param systemid
     * @return
     * @throws TransformerException
     */
    public static Node transform(Document doc, StreamSource xslInput, String systemid) throws TransformerException {
        TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(xslInput);
        DOMResult domResult = new DOMResult();
        DOMSource xmlDomSource = null;
        xmlDomSource = new DOMSource(doc);
        xmlDomSource.setSystemId(systemid);
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
        transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "2");
        transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xalan}line-separator", "\n");
        transformer.transform(xmlDomSource, domResult);
        return domResult.getNode();
    }
}

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