Java Utililty Methods XML Document Format

Description

The list of methods to do XML Document Format are organized into topic(s).

Method

String

printPrettyXML(Document doc)
print Pretty XML

Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty("indent", "yes");
transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "3");
StringWriter output = new StringWriter();
transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(output));
return output.toString();

void

saveDocumentToFormattedStream(Document doc, OutputStream outputStream)
Save the given document to an output stream.

Source source = new DOMSource(doc);
Result result = new StreamResult(outputStream);
Transformer transformer = createTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes"); 
transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xalan}indent-amount", "4"); 
transformer.transform(source, result);

String

toFormattedString(Document element)
Outputs a DOM Document node to a string with identation.

try {
    return serializeXML(element);
} catch (TransformerException e) {
    return "(no data)";