How to I output org.w3c.dom.Element to string format in java?

Question

I have an org.w3c.dom.Element object passed into my method. I need to see the whole xml string including its child nodes (the whole object graph). I am looking

Answer 1

Simple 4 lines code to get String without xml-declaration (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>) from org.w3c.dom.Element

DOMImplementationLS lsImpl = (DOMImplementationLS)node.getOwnerDocument().getImplementation().getFeature("LS", "3.0");
LSSerializer serializer = lsImpl.createLSSerializer();
serializer.getDomConfig().setParameter("xml-declaration", false); //by default its true, so set it to false to get String without xml-declaration
String str = serializer.writeToString(node);