Java XML Node to String getXmlAsString(Node node)

Description

get Xml As String

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
node	a parameter

Exception

Parameter	Description
TransformerException	an exception

Return

output of the node's xml string.

Declaration

public static String getXmlAsString(Node node) throws TransformerException 

Method Source Code

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

import java.io.StringWriter;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

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.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;

public class Main {
    /**/*  w w w  .  j av a  2s.c  om*/
     * @param node
     * @return output of the node's xml string.
     * @throws TransformerException
     */
    public static String getXmlAsString(Node node) throws TransformerException {
        Transformer transformer = getTransformer();
        DOMSource source = new DOMSource(node);
        StringWriter xmlString = new StringWriter();
        StreamResult streamResult = new StreamResult(xmlString);
        transformer.transform(source, streamResult);
        return xmlString.toString();
    }

    private static Transformer getTransformer() throws TransformerException {
        TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.STANDALONE, "yes");
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
        return transformer;
    }

    /**
     * 
     * @param node
     * @return
     * @deprecated Use {@link #getXmlAsString(Node)} instead.
     */
    public static String toString(Node node) {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        if (node instanceof Text) {
            if (node.getNodeValue() != null) {
                byte[] bytes = node.getNodeValue().getBytes();
                List<Byte> newBytes = new ArrayList<Byte>();
                for (int i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
                    if (bytes[i] == 63) {
                        byte[] bs = "&nbsp;".getBytes();
                        for (byte b : bs) {
                            newBytes.add(b);
                        }
                    } else {
                        newBytes.add(bytes[i]);
                    }
                }
                byte[] valueBytes = new byte[newBytes.size()];
                for (int i = 0; i < newBytes.size(); i++) {
                    valueBytes[i] = newBytes.get(i).byteValue();
                }
                sb.append(new String(valueBytes));
            }
        } else {
            sb.append("<").append(node.getNodeName());
            NamedNodeMap attrs = node.getAttributes();
            for (int j = 0; j < attrs.getLength(); j++) {
                sb.append(" ").append(attrs.item(j).getNodeName()).append("=\"")
                        .append(attrs.item(j).getNodeValue()).append("\"");
            }
            sb.append(">");
            if (node.hasChildNodes()) {
                NodeList children = node.getChildNodes();
                for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) {
                    String str = toString(children.item(i));
                    if (str != null)
                        sb.append(str);
                }
            } else {
                sb.append(node.getNodeValue());
            }
            sb.append("</").append(node.getNodeName()).append(">");
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }
}

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1. getStringFromNode(Node node)
2. getStringFromNode(Node node)
3. getStringFromXML(Node node)
4. getText(final Node node)
5. getXml(Node node)
6. getXMLString(Node doc)
7. getXmlString(Node n)
8. getXMLString(Node node, boolean omitXmlDeclaration)
9. getXMLStringFragmentFromNode(Node node)