How to parse whole xml elements into a java String

Question

hello everybody,
I am trying to parse whole xml into a string for example
my xml file is as below:
<root>
    <element>
       <data id="1">1</data>
    </element>
    <element>
       <data id="2">2</data>
    </element>
</root>
in java whole data should be transfered as
String xmlString ="<root><element><data id=\"1\">1</data></element><element><data id=\"2\">2</data></element></root>";or in a simple way can xml be copied into a string? any assistance ...
thanQ in Advance.
Han.

Answer 1

This code is to convert xml document to a string.
                         try {
                              javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory tfactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
                              javax.xml.transform.Transformer xform = tfactory.newTransformer();
                              javax.xml.transform.Source src = new DOMSource(xmlString);
                              java.io.StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
                              StreamResult result = new javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult(writer);
                              xform.transform(src, result);
                              //System.out.println(writer.toString());          
                         } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
                              e.printStackTrace();
                         }catch(Exception ex )
                              ex.printStackTrace();
                         }