Java XML Node to String getDescriptionOfNode(Node node)

Description

get Description Of Node

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String getDescriptionOfNode(Node node) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: Open Source License 

import java.io.*;

import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.*;

public class Main {
    public static String getDescriptionOfNode(Node node) {
        if (!(node instanceof Element)) {
            return domToString(node);
        }//from  w  ww.ja  v a2s  .co m

        final String id = ((Element) node).getAttribute("id");
        if ((id == null) || (id.length() == 0)) {
            return domToString(node);
        }
        return "Node: id=" + id;

    }

    static String domToString(Node node) {
        try {
            TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer();
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            transformer.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(writer));
            return writer.toString();
        } catch (TransformerException te) {
            return "(TransformerException)";
        }
    }
}

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1. createXmlString(Node node)
2. dump(Node node)
3. dumpNode(Node node)
4. elementToString(Node element)
5. getAttributeValue(Node node, String attrName)
6. getNodeAsInputStream(Node node)
7. getNodeAsStream(Node node)
8. getNodeSubtreeXMLString(final Node node)
9. getNodeXml(Node node)