Java XML Element to String elementToString(final Element element)

Description

Converts an Element into its XML String representation.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
element	XML element

Return

String representation of XML element

Declaration

private static String elementToString(final Element element) 

Method Source Code

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

import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
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.Element;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Converts an Element into its XML String representation.
     *
     * @param element
     *            XML element
     * @return String representation of XML element
     */
    private static String elementToString(final Element element) {
        try {
            final DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(element);
            final StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            final StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
            final TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            final Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer();
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8");
            transformer.transform(domSource, result);
            return writer.toString();
        } catch (final TransformerException e) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid Element!", e);
        }
    }
}

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