org.w3c.dom.Document to String without javax.xml.transform

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I've spent a while looking around on Google for a way to convert a org.w3c.dom.Document to a string representation of the whole DOM tree, so I can save the object to file system.

However all the solutions I've found use javax.xml.transform.Transformer which isn't supported as part of the Android 2.1 API. How can I do this without using this class/containing package?

Take a look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2290945/writing-xml-on-android. — javanna, Mar 31 '11 at 15:47
@Javanna Thanks. Post as answer and i'll give you accepted answer — Kurru, Mar 31 '11 at 16:58

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 06 '12 at 09:25

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Please try this code:

DocumentBuilderFactory docFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = docBuilder.parse("/path/to/file.xml");
DOMImplementation domImpl = ownerDocument.getImplementation();
DOMImplementationLS domImplLS = (DOMImplementationLS)domImpl.getFeature("LS", "3.0");
LSSerializer serializer = domImplLS.createLSSerializer();
serializer.getDomConfig().setParameter("xml-declaration", Boolean.valueOf(false));
LSOutput lsOutput = domImplLS.createLSOutput();
lsOutput.setCharacterStream(output);
serializer.write(doc, lsOutput);

edited Sep 06 '12 at 09:25

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answered Sep 06 '12 at 09:17

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Nice, but not supported by org.w3c.tidy.DOMDocumentImpl for example. – JasonPlutext Mar 19 '13 at 07:16
JTidy doesn't implement LSSerializer – JasonPlutext Mar 26 '13 at 00:17

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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To avoid using Transformer you should manually iterate over your xml tree, otherwise you can rely on some external libraries. You should take a look here.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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answered Mar 31 '11 at 17:05

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