How to I output org.w3c.dom.Element to string format in java?

Question

I have an org.w3c.dom.Element object passed into my method. I need to see the whole xml string including its child nodes (the whole object graph). I am looking

Answer 1

With VTD-XML, you can pass into the cursor and make a single getElementFragment call to retrieve the segment (as denoted by its offset and length)... Below is an example

import com.ximpleware.*;
public class concatTest{
    public static void main(String s1[]) throws Exception {
        VTDGen vg= new VTDGen();
        String s = "some  one";
        vg.setDoc(s.getBytes());
        vg.parse(false);
        VTDNav vn = vg.getNav();
        AutoPilot ap = new AutoPilot(vn);
        ap.selectXPath("/users/user/firstName");
        int i=ap.evalXPath();
        if (i!=1){
            long l= vn.getElementFragment();
            System.out.println(" the segment is "+ vn.toString((int)l,(int)(l>>32)));
        }
    }

}