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Hi,
I am using Xerces Java Parser 1.4.4. I need to get the String value of the Document object. toString() returns null !!!
Well I searched the API no method to get the String value of the XML Document object.
Prior I was using Electric XML parser which had the method to get the String value of the document.
Is it a DOM standard that Document should not provide method to get the String value?
Is there any way I can get the String value of the Document object.
Thanks for the time.
 
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This should do it:
 
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Is this all I need to use the above code? My compiler doesn't seem to know what a Source is.
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;

If not, what package(s) do I need, and is there a way to do it with only the above ones?
 
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import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
 
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Thanks again. Its working fine.
Well Can you throw some light on this why its not given directly in the API ??
Cheers.
 
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Can you throw some light on this why its not given directly in the API?

Sorry, don't know.
 
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how about string to document?
 
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Originally posted by kiran manohar:
how about string to document?


 
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Originally posted by Lasse Koskela:
This should do it:



Any idea why I'm getting a NullPointerException? In the meantime, I've found another way to convert the XML doc into a string by serializing and then writing to a String, and here's that String:

Here's what it does to my Tomcat:

Note that the method in which I used your code is called convertXMLToString, and it takes in the XML doc.
 
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Could you point out the exact line where the NullPointerException occurs?
 
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Thanks for your input...I'm getting a NullPointerException on the last line below:
 
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Strange. That would mean that the newTransformer() method would return a null. Well, it shouldn't, according to the javadoc:

[newTransformer() ... returns ...] A Transformer object that may be used to perform a transformation in a single thread, never null.


[ October 16, 2003: Message edited by: Lasse Koskela ]
 
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In the meantime, I've found another way to convert the XML doc into a string by serializing and then writing to a String, and here's that String:


Hello Stephen!

How did you manage to serialize yoyr XML into a string?

I have tried:
java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();
java.io.ObjectOutputStream objectOutputStream = new java.io.ObjectOutputStream(byteArrayOutputStream);
objectOutputStream.writeObject(document);
objectOutputStream.flush();
System.out.println(byteArrayOutputStream.toString("ISO-8859-1"));

Best regards
Fredrik
 
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