Java XML Node Transform nodeToByteArray(Node node)

Description

Returns a byte array from given node.

License

EUPL

Parameter

Parameter	Description
node	a parameter

Exception

Parameter	Description
TransformerException	an exception

Declaration

public static byte[] nodeToByteArray(Node node) throws TransformerException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*// ww w  .j  av a  2s. c om
 * Copyright 2003 Federal Chancellery Austria
 * MOA-ID has been developed in a cooperation between BRZ, the Federal
 * Chancellery Austria - ICT staff unit, and Graz University of Technology.
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import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;

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

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Returns a byte array from given node.
     * @param node
     * @return
     * @throws TransformerException
     */
    public static byte[] nodeToByteArray(Node node) throws TransformerException {
        Source source = new DOMSource(node);
        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        //StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
        Result result = new StreamResult(out);
        TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();
        transformer.transform(source, result);
        return out.toByteArray();
    }
}

Related

1. getAsText(Node n)
2. getHumanReadableXml(final Node node)
3. getNodeValue(NodeList nodeList)
4. getValueOfValueNode(Node n, boolean unescape)
5. getXML(NodeList childNodes)
6. render(final Node node)
7. renderNode(final Node node, final boolean stripHeader)
8. renderNode(Node node)
9. save(Node node, OutputStream out)