Java XML Node to String toXMLString(Node node)

Description

Convert an XML node to a string.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
node	a parameter

Declaration

public static String toXMLString(Node node) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/* -*- Java -*-/* w  ww.ja  va2 s.  co m*/
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2009
 * Spoken Language Systems Group
 * MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
 * Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
 * obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
 * files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
 * restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy,
 * modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
 * of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 *
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
 * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 *
 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
 * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
 * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
 * NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
 * BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
 * ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
 * CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
 * SOFTWARE.
 */

import java.io.StringWriter;

import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
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.Node;

public class Main {
    private static final TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();

    /**
     * Convert an XML node to a string. Node can be a document or an element.
     * 
     * @param node
     * @return
     */
    public static String toXMLString(Node node) {
        Transformer transformer = null;
        try {
            transformer = tFactory.newTransformer();
            // System.err.format("Using transformer: %s%n", transformer);
        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        DOMSource source = new DOMSource(node);
        StringWriter xmlWriter = new StringWriter();
        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(xmlWriter);
        try {
            transformer.transform(source, result);
        } catch (TransformerException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return xmlWriter.toString();
    }
}

Related

1. toXML(Node node)
2. toXml(Node node, boolean keepHeader)
3. toXMLString(final Node value)
4. toXMLString(Node node)
5. toXMLString(Node node)
6. toXMLString(Node node, boolean header)
7. writeXml(Node n, OutputStream os)
8. xml(Node node)
9. XML2String(Node node)