Java XML Node Serialize serializeXML(Node root)

Description

This method serializes the supplied XML.

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static String serializeXML(Node root) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**//from w  w w. j a va2  s .  c o  m
 * Copyright 2014 IBM Corp.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 **/

import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.w3c.dom.ls.*;

public class Main {
    /**
     * This method serializes the supplied XML.  It returns something like this:
     * 
     * <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
     * <soma:response xmlns:soma="http://www.datapower.com/schemas/management">
     *     <soma:timestamp>2008-11-26T19:18:01-05:00</soma:timestamp>
     *     <soma:result>OK</soma:result>
     * </soma:response>
     * 
     * Yes, it encodes with UTF-16 rather than the preferred UTF-8.  Someone ought to
     * invest the time to correct this behavior.
     */
    public static String serializeXML(Node root) {
        if (root == null)
            return "<null/>";
        if (root.getFeature("Core", "3.0") == null)
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
                    "JVM doesn't support DOM Core 3.0");
        if (root.getFeature("LS", "3.0") == null)
            throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
                    "JVM doesn't support DOM LS 3.0");

        DOMImplementationLS ls = (DOMImplementationLS) (root
                .getOwnerDocument().getImplementation()).getFeature("LS",
                "3.0");
        LSSerializer lss = ls.createLSSerializer();
        String result = lss.writeToString(root);

        return result;
    }
}

Related

1. serializeToXML(Node node, boolean indent)
2. serializeToXml(Node node, OutputStream out)
3. serializeXML(Node e, Writer out)
4. serializeXML(Node node)
5. serializeXML(Node node)
6. serializeXmlNode(Node node, Writer writer, boolean includeNode)