Probably Simple XML toString

Question

I've been trying to convert an xml document to a string, but I'm having a problem converting. I'm reading the XML from a file.
Document document = builder.parse(new File(filename));
And I'm sure that works. I can parse the result. But then I try to return what I've read using:
return (document.toString());
Every attempt I've made at using toString() has failed; even when I just try to write it out. What's the trick?

Answer 1

I don't think that is right way of doing it, try it out this way:
Document document;
TransformerFactory tFactory =
                TransformerFactory.newInstance();
                        Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer();
            DOMSource source = new DOMSource(document);
            StringWriter sw=new StringWriter();
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw);
            transformer.transform(source, result);
String xmlString=sw.toString();Message was edited by:
java_queen