String to org.w3c.dom.Document conversion problem

Question

Hi all
I am using JDK 5 and am having scenario to convert String to w3c.Document object , by the way of finding solution i got a code snippet in sun forum
final String xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><DATA>sample</DATA>"; // xml to convert
final DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
final DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
final Document document = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));
System.out.println(document);
But when i try to execute this code , am gettng output as null. , i dont know why this code behaving like that , can you please help me to solve the problem?
Thanks
Prabu.P

Answer 1

imprabu wrote:
I am using JDK 5 and am having scenario to convert String to w3c.Document object, by the way of finding solution i got a code snippet in sun forum
System.out.println(document);
Hi Prabu,
This is not the way you can print a DOM Document. You can do it using Transformer:
String xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><DATA>sample</DATA>"; // xml to convert
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));
//Wong Way of printing a DOM Document. this equal to Object.toString(), Which is of no use for you.
System.out.println(document); // It will just print: [#document: null]
// Using Transformer to print DOM Document
Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
Source source = new DOMSource(document);
Result output = new StreamResult(System.out);
transformer.transform(source, output); // This will print: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><DATA>sample</DATA>*Cheers,
typurohit* (Tejas Purohit)