Robert Papp

Paul Clapham wrote:Then you need an identity Transformer. When you call its transform(Source, Result) method the Source should be a StAXSource which wraps that XMLStreamReader, and the Result should be a StreamResult which wraps a StringWriter.

I think what he meant was:
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError; import javax.xml.transform.stax.StAXSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; private String getOuterXml(XMLStreamReader xmlr) throws TransformerConfigurationException, TransformerFactoryConfigurationError, TransformerException { Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(); StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter(); transformer.transform(new StAXSource(xmlr), new StreamResult(stringWriter)); return stringWriter.toString(); }