XML Document to String?

Question

I\'ve been fiddling with this for over twenty minutes and my Google-foo is failing me.

Let\'s say I have an XML Document created in Java (org.w3c.dom.Document):

Answer 1

You can use this piece of code to accomplish what you want to:

public static String getStringFromDocument(Document doc) throws TransformerException {
    DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(doc);
    StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
    StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
    TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
    Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer();
    transformer.transform(domSource, result);
    return writer.toString();
}