Get XML DOM as a string - Java XML

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Description

Get XML DOM as a string

Demo Code


//package com.java2s;

import java.io.StringWriter;

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;

public class Main {
    /**/*from  w w w.j a va  2 s.c  om*/
     * Get DOM as a string
     * @param doc
     * @return
     */
    public static String getStringFromDoc(org.w3c.dom.Document doc) {
        if (doc == null) {
            System.out.println("XML document is null");
        }
        try {
            DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(doc);
            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
            TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer();
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
            transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.DOCTYPE_SYSTEM,
                    "http://commons.omniupdate.com/dtd/standard.dtd");
            transformer.transform(domSource, result);
            writer.flush();
            return writer.toString();
        } catch (TransformerException ex) {
            System.out.println("Transformer Exception");
            // ex.printStackTrace();
            return "Error in transformation";
        }
    }
}

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