Convert an org.w3c.dom.Node into a String

Question

Sorry I\'m a Java/XML newbie - and can\'t seem to figure this one out. It seems it\'s possible to convert a Document object to a string. However, I want to convert a Node ob

Answer 1

You can use a Transformer (error handling and optional factory configuration omitted for clarity):

Node node = ...;
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
transformer.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(writer));
String xml = writer.toString();
// Use xml ...