To output a Node as a XML String. - Java XML

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To output a Node as a XML String.

Demo Code

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//package com.java2s;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;

import javax.xml.transform.Result;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
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 {
    /**
     * To output a Node as a String.
     */
    public static String nodeToString(Node document) throws Exception {
        ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

        Source xmlSource = new DOMSource(document);
        Result outputTarget = new StreamResult(outputStream);
        Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance()
                .newTransformer();
        transformer.transform(xmlSource, outputTarget);

        return outputStream.toString();
    }
}

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