Question

I have an xml document object that I need to convert into a string.

Is there as simple way to do this?

Answer 1

Here’s some quick code I pulled out of a library I had nearby. Might wanna dress it up, but it works:

import java.io.*; import javax.xml.transform.*; import javax.xml.transform.dom.*; import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;  public String TransformDocumentToString(Document doc) {     DOMSource dom = new DOMSource(doc);     StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();       StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);      TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();     Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();     transformer.transform(dom, result);      return writer.toString(); }  

edit: as commentor noticed earlier, i had a syntax error. had to pull out some sensitive lines so I wouldn’t get canned and put them back in the wrong order. thanks! 😉