Java Utililty Methods XML Transform Usage

ByteArrayOutputStream ostream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
TransformerFactory transFac = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer trans = transFac.newTransformer();
trans.transform(new DOMSource(elm), new StreamResult(ostream));
return (new String(Base64.encodeBase64(ostream.toByteArray(), true)));

return DatatypeConverter.printDateTime(c);

StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
NodeList nodeList = element.getChildNodes();
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) {
    Node node = nodeList.item(i);
    if (node instanceof CharacterData) {
        CharacterData characterData = (CharacterData) node;
        buffer.append(characterData.getData());
return buffer.toString();

Date date = null;
if (xmlGregorianCalendar != null) {
    final GregorianCalendar gregorianCalendar = xmlGregorianCalendar.toGregorianCalendar();
    date = gregorianCalendar.getTime();
return date;

Element main;
DocumentBuilder db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = db.newDocument();
main = doc.createElement("reports");
doc.appendChild(main);
saveDocumentToFile(doc, xmlFile);

Service service = Service.create(new QName("dummyService"));
Object obj = service.getHandlerResolver();
if (obj == null) {
    service.addPort(new QName("dummyPort"), SOAPBinding.SOAP11HTTP_BINDING, "http://dummy-address");
    obj = service.createDispatch(new QName("dummyPort"), Source.class, Mode.PAYLOAD);
return obj;

return reader;

XMLReader xmlReader = spf.newSAXParser().getXMLReader();
return new SAXSource(xmlReader, new InputSource(new FileInputStream(newFile)));

StreamSource[] streamSource = new StreamSource[inputs.length];
for (int i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {
    streamSource[i] = new StreamSource(inputs[i]);
SchemaFactory sf = SchemaFactory.newInstance(javax.xml.XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
Schema schema = sf.newSchema(streamSource);
return schema;

ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(outputStream);
epr.writeTo(result);
return new StreamSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(outputStream.toByteArray()));