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

String getNodeString(Node node) {
    try {
        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
        Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
        transformer.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(writer));
        String output = writer.toString();
        return output.substring(output.indexOf("?>") + 2);//remove 
    } catch (TransformerException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return node.getTextContent();
}