Source code: com/aendvari/griffin/util/XmlUtil.java

   /*
    * XmlUtil.java
    *
    * Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 Aendvari, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
    *
    * See the file LICENSE for terms of use.
    *
    */
   
  package com.aendvari.griffin.util;
  
  import java.io.*;
  
  import org.w3c.dom.Node;
  
  import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
  import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
  import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
  import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
  import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
  import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
  
  
  /**
   * <p>Utility class for common functions.</p>
   *
   * @author Scott Milne
   *
   */
  
  public class XmlUtil
  {
    /**
     * Extracts all data from the given node, and converts it into a String.
     *
     * @param  Node              A <code>org.w3c.dom.Node</code> instance.
     *
     * @return                  The string representation of the given {@link Node}.
     *
     */
  
    public static String ViewNode( Node node )
    {
      try
      {
        DOMSource source = new DOMSource(node);
  
        TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();
  
        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
  
        transformer.transform( source, result );
  
        return writer.toString();
      }
      catch( TransformerConfigurationException e )
      {
        e.printStackTrace();
      }
      catch( TransformerException e )
      {
        e.printStackTrace();
      }
  
      return null;
    }
  }