How to retreive the modified XML data?

Question

Hi..
i had a problem in retrieving the modified xml data.
Iam using apache's DOMParser
In the my class my xml data is stored in a string.so i used following statement to read xml data from that string:
String abc="<? xml version=... some data goes here"
InputSource in=new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(abc.getBytes()));
          DOMParser domParser = new DOMParser();
          domParser.parse(in);
          Document doc = domParser.getDocument();
          Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
and i did some operations like adding ,removing and replacing elements etc.
It was fine when the checked the data.
but..i need my modified xml data as String.
is there any method to retrieve the modified xml data "as it is" in String?

Answer 1

You can use XMLSerializer.
Here is an example that dump your document on the console:
OutputFormat formatter = new OutputFormat();
formatter.setPreserveSpace(true);
XMLSerializer serializer =
new XMLSerializer(System.out, formatter);
serializer.serialize(doc);
where doc is your Document.