How to convert SOAPBody to String

Question

I want to convert SOAPBody to String. What is the best way to do it? Should i first convert it to xml and then convert it into String or we can jsut convert it into String.<

Answer 1

You do not need to convert SOAPBody to XML, because it implements org.w3c.dom.Element interface, thus this is already a valid XML object. You can use org.w3c.dom.ls package to achieve your goal:

   String xmlAsString = null;
   Element element = what-ever-element;

   DOMImplementationLS domImplementationLS = (DOMImplementationLS)element.getOwnerDocument().getImplementation().getFeature("LS", "3.0");
   LSSerializer serializer = domImplementationLS.createLSSerializer();
   xmlAsString = serializer.writeToString(element);

You can play with serializer.getDomConfig().setParameter(....) to configure the serializer.