/**
* Converts an XML document to a string. From Zaz Gmy on this StackOverflow post:
* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10356258/how-do-i-convert-a-org-w3c-dom-document-object-to-a-string
*
* @param doc The document to convert to a String.
*/
private static String getStringFromDocument(Document doc) {
try {
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);
return writer.toString();
} catch (TransformerException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
}
/**
* Writes an XML file from a Document object.
*
* @param doc the Document object to be written to file
* @param file the file to be written
* @throws IOException
* @author Klaus Meffert
* @since 2.0
*/
public static void writeFile(Document doc, File file) throws IOException {
// Use a Transformer for output
TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer;
try {
transformer = tFactory.newTransformer();
} catch (TransformerConfigurationException tex) {
throw new IOException(tex.getMessage());
}
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(fos);
try {
transformer.transform(source, result);
fos.close();
} catch (TransformerException tex) {
throw new IOException(tex.getMessage());
}
}
public static boolean writeXML(File file, Document document) {
javax.xml.transform.Transformer transformer = null;
try {
transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
} catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return false;
}
transformer.setOutputProperty("indent", "yes");
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputPropertiesFactory.S_KEY_INDENT_AMOUNT, "2");
transformer.setOutputProperty("encoding", "UTF-8");
try {
transformer.transform(new DOMSource(document), new StreamResult(file));
} catch (TransformerException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return false;
}
return true;
}
