What is the shortest way to pretty print a org.w3c.dom.Document to stdout?

Question

What is the easiest way to pretty print (a.k.a. formatted) a org.w3c.dom.Document to stdout?

Answer 1

This will return a nicely formated output by using recursive descent/ascent.

private static boolean skipNL;
private static String printXML(Node rootNode) {
    String tab = "";
    skipNL = false;
    return(printXML(rootNode, tab));
}
private static String printXML(Node rootNode, String tab) {
    String print = "";
    if(rootNode.getNodeType()==Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
        print += "\n"+tab+"<"+rootNode.getNodeName()+">";
    }
    NodeList nl = rootNode.getChildNodes();
    if(nl.getLength()>0) {
        for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) {
            print += printXML(nl.item(i), tab+"  ");    // \t
        }
    } else {
        if(rootNode.getNodeValue()!=null) {
            print = rootNode.getNodeValue();
        }
        skipNL = true;
    }
    if(rootNode.getNodeType()==Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
        if(!skipNL) {
            print += "\n"+tab;
        }
        skipNL = false;
        print += "";
    }
    return(print);
}