Transformer - omitting the xml header (" ?xml encoding=.. ?" )

[Sol Mayer-Orn]

Hi,

I'm trying to use Transformer in order to convert a DOM Node into a string.
This works, but unfortunately it sticks the xml header at the beginning of the string : < ?xml ... >
For my particular application, I don't need this xml header. So how do you tell the transformer to avoid printing it ?

That's my code so far:

Node node = ...  // node from a DOM document
TransformerFactory fact= TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transfor=fact.newTransformer();
StringWriter strWriter= new StringWriter();
transfor.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(strWriter));
// this works, but I'd like to get rid of the < ?xml ... > header...

Thanks

[Paul Clapham]

If you were doing an XSLT transformation, then you would use <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>. So in your code I would try

transfor.setOutputProperty("omit-xml-declaration", "yes");

That's my best guess.

Bear in mind that the transformer cannot omit the XML declaration unless the encoding of the document it is writing is UTF-8. Any other encoding has to be specified in an XML declaration.
[ February 05, 2006: Message edited by: Paul Clapham ]