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Asked: 2026-06-02T22:57:24+00:00

I want to convert a org.w3c.dom.Document object to a String. I’m using Java 6

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I want to convert a org.w3c.dom.Document object to a String. I’m using Java 6 and am open to using any (completely free) technology that is up to the task. I tried the solution from this thread — Is there a more elegant way to convert an XML Document to a String in Java than this code?, where they have

DOMImplementationLS domImplementation = (DOMImplementationLS) doc.getImplementation();
LSSerializer lsSerializer = domImplementation.createLSSerializer();
String html = lsSerializer.writeToString(doc);

but was greeted with the following horrendous exception …

org.w3c.dom.DOMException: DOM method not supported
    at org.w3c.tidy.DOMDocumentImpl.getImplementation(DOMDocumentImpl.java:129)
    at com.myco.myproj.cleaners.JTidyCleaner.outputDocAsString(JTidyCleaner.java:74)
    at com.myco.myproj.cleaners.JTidyCleaner.parse(JTidyCleaner.java:63)
    at com.myco.myproj.util.NetUtilities.getUrlAsDocument(NetUtilities.java:51)
    at com.myco.myproj.parsers.AbstractHTMLParser.getEventFromElement(AbstractHTMLParser.java:131)
    at com.myco.myproj.parsers.AbstractHTMLParser.parsePage(AbstractHTMLParser.java:100)
    at com.myco.myproj.parsers.AbstractHTMLParser.getEvents(AbstractHTMLParser.java:63)
    at com.myco.myproj.domain.EventFeed.refresh(EventFeed.java:87)
    at com.myco.myproj.domain.EventFeed.getEvents(EventFeed.java:72)
    at com.myco.myproj.parsers.impl.ChicagoCouncilGlobalAffairsParserTest.testParser(ChicagoCouncilGlobalAffairsParserTest.java:21)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:41)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:20)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:28)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestMethodCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestMethodCallbacks.java:74)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestMethodCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestMethodCallbacks.java:83)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.SpringRepeat.evaluate(SpringRepeat.java:72)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:231)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:193)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:52)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:191)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:42)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:184)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunBeforeTestClassCallbacks.java:61)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.statements.RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.evaluate(RunAfterTestClassCallbacks.java:71)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236)
    at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.run(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:174)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you are ok to do transformation, you may try this.

    DocumentBuilderFactory domFact = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = domFact.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(st);
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);
System.out.println("XML IN String format is: \n" + writer.toString());
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