DOM to String & String to DOM too Complicated

Question

Hi Java Comunity,
I'm just wondering why one of the simplest tasks on the XML development such as creating (parsing) a DOM from a String and viceversa (Obtaining the XML as String from a DOM Document) is so Complicated.
Obviously I'm a newbie in JAXP, but not in XML, the common sense dictaminates that these tasks should be as simple as something like:
String xmlString = "<mytag>...</mytag>";
org.w3c.dom.Document xmlDoc = new org.w3c.dom.Document(xmlString);
and
String anotherXmlString = xmlDoc.getXmlString();
I already know how to perform these conversions, but I'm just wondering why you Java Developers enjoy making suffer all the programmers in the world with such complicated (and not intuitive) ways to perform simple tasks.
Comunity, what do you think???

Answer 1

This needs some cleanup, but it transforms an org.w3c.dom.Document object to a String.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
public static String DocumentToString(Document doc)
try
ByteArrayOutputStream out;
Transformer transformer;
TransformerFactory tFactory;
tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
transformer = tFactory.newTransformer();
out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc.getDocumentElement()), new StreamResult(out));
if (out != null)
return new String(out.toByteArray());
else
return null;
catch (TransformerException te)
te.printStackTrace();
return null;