Document to String

Hello all,
I need in my program create very simple xml-like document (1 node without any attributes, few childs without attributes only string values). The easiest way is String concatination, but I want more flexible sollution. So, I desided to use xml packages that are in standart 1.4 jdk, without using any libraries. I'm using now org.w3c.dom.Document
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = db.newDocument();
Element body = doc.createElement("body");
body.appendChild(doc.createElement("elem1"));
Now I need to retrive this xml as String, but how? The only sample I found, is XMLUtils class from axis libs, which have method DocumentToString. But may be such functionality can be found in classes that are in standart jdk pacjkages? If not, how can I receive xml as string using this XMLUtils, without header "xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8""?
Thanks,
Stan

Hi Stan,
When I was using DOM, I remember having converted my document to a String simply with the "toString()" method ... I know it may sound a bit easy, but have you tried it ?
Else, I don't know if your application has to respect some performance rules, but DOM is one of the worst API in terms of memory consumption.
You should take a look at some other, like XMLBeans if you want a XSD strong related scheme.
Well, I hope you'll find a solution
See ya !

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