Java XML Node Transform renderNode(final Node node, final boolean stripHeader)

Description

Renders an XML node to a string

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
node	The xml node to render
stripHeader	If true, strips the auto-generated XML header from the generated string

Return

the rendered string or null if it failed conversion

Declaration

public static String renderNode(final Node node, final boolean stripHeader) 

Method Source Code

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import java.io.StringWriter;

import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
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 {
    /** The standard auto-generated XML header */
    public static final String XML_HEADER = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>";

    /**
     * Renders an XML node to a string
     * @param node The xml node to render
     * @param stripHeader If true, strips the auto-generated XML header from the generated string
     * @return the rendered string or null if it failed conversion
     */
    public static String renderNode(final Node node, final boolean stripHeader) {
        if (node == null)
            return null;
        try {
            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
            transformer.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(writer));
            final String s = writer.toString();
            if (stripHeader) {
                return s.replace(XML_HEADER, "");
            }
            return s;
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            return null;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Renders an XML node to a string
     * @param node The xml node to render
     * @return the rendered string or null if it failed conversion
     */
    public static String renderNode(final Node node) {
        return renderNode(node, false);
    }
}

Related

1. getNodeValue(NodeList nodeList)
2. getValueOfValueNode(Node n, boolean unescape)
3. getXML(NodeList childNodes)
4. nodeToByteArray(Node node)
5. render(final Node node)
6. renderNode(Node node)
7. save(Node node, OutputStream out)
8. write(final Node node, final Result result)