public String readAsXmlString() throws IOException, XMLStreamException { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); int depth = 0; while (true) { if (XMLStreamReader.START_ELEMENT == getEventType()) { depth++; String prefix = getPrefix(); sb.append("<"); if (!"".equals(prefix)) { sb.append(prefix); sb.append(":"); } sb.append(getLocalName()); if (getNamespaceURI() != null) { if ("".equals(prefix)) sb.append(" xmlns"); else sb.append(" xmlns:").append(prefix); sb.append("=\""); sb.append(getNamespaceURI()).append("\""); } for (int i = 0; i < getAttributeCount(); i++) { sb.append(" "); sb.append(getAttributeLocalName(i)); sb.append("=\""); sb.append(getAttributeValue(i)); sb.append("\""); } sb.append(">"); log.finest(this + " " + sb); } else if (XMLStreamReader.END_ELEMENT == getEventType()) { depth--; sb.append("</"); String prefix = getPrefix(); if (!"".equals(prefix)) sb.append(prefix).append(":"); sb.append(getLocalName()); sb.append(">"); if (depth == 0) return sb.toString(); } else if (XMLStreamReader.CHARACTERS == getEventType()) { sb.append(getText()); } else { log.finer(this + " tag=" + getEventType()); return sb.toString(); } if (next() < 0) { log.finer(this + " unexpected end of file"); return sb.toString(); } } }