OutputStreamWriter to String??

Question

I am trying to read in an XML file (which works correctly) and write the output to a String. I have the following code which works correctly:
public void characters( char[] ch, int start, int length )
throws SAXException {
try {
OutputStreamWriter outw = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out);
outw.write( ch, start,length );
outw.flush();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
I'm sure my problem is not difficult, instead of writing the string to the screen ... :
OutputStreamWriter outw = new OutputStreamWriter(System.out);
outw.write( ch, start,length ); //writes to screen
... I would like to write this data to a string and use it later. I need someone who is familiar with OutputStreamWriter to tell me how to do this.
Please help, I can't afford to rip any more hair out!!!

Answer 1

Hello Mike,
If all you need to do is read an Xml and assign its contents to a string, once you have a document object (instance of class: org.w3c.dom.Document) created, you can extract the string representation of it using its toString method.
eg: String strXml = document.toString();
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Kunal