Java XML Node to String toString(Node node, Map outputProperties)

Description

Converts an XML node to a string.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
node	the XML node
outputProperties	the output properties

Return

the string

Declaration

public static String toString(Node node, Map<String, String> outputProperties) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;

import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;

import java.util.HashMap;

import java.util.Map;

import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class Main {
    /**/* w  ww  .  ja v a 2 s .com*/
     * Converts an XML node to a string.
     * @param node the XML node
     * @return the string
     */
    public static String toString(Node node) {
        return toString(node, new HashMap<String, String>());
    }

    /**
     * Converts an XML node to a string.
     * @param node the XML node
     * @param outputProperties the output properties
     * @return the string
     */
    public static String toString(Node node, Map<String, String> outputProperties) {
        try {
            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            toWriter(node, writer, outputProperties);
            return writer.toString();
        } catch (TransformerException e) {
            //should never be thrown because we're writing to a string
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Writes an XML node to a writer.
     * @param node the XML node
     * @param writer the writer
     * @throws TransformerException if there's a problem writing to the writer
     */
    public static void toWriter(Node node, Writer writer) throws TransformerException {
        toWriter(node, writer, new HashMap<String, String>());
    }

    /**
     * Writes an XML node to a writer.
     * @param node the XML node
     * @param writer the writer
     * @param outputProperties the output properties
     * @throws TransformerException if there's a problem writing to the writer
     */
    public static void toWriter(Node node, Writer writer, Map<String, String> outputProperties)
            throws TransformerException {
        Transformer transformer;
        try {
            transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
            //no complex configurations
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        } catch (TransformerFactoryConfigurationError e) {
            //no complex configurations
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }

        for (Map.Entry<String, String> property : outputProperties.entrySet()) {
            try {
                transformer.setOutputProperty(property.getKey(), property.getValue());
            } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
                //ignore invalid output properties
            }
        }

        DOMSource source = new DOMSource(node);
        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
        transformer.transform(source, result);
    }
}

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7. toString(Node xml)
8. toString(NodeList nodes)
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