How to get a xml document (DOM) as string

[Samuel Zarza <sz...@cestel.es>]

Hello:
    I'm writing a method that returns a Document (DOM) as string, but it doesn't work. What I'm doing wrong?

(xmlDocument is a well generated Document object before).

  public String toXML() throws IOException {
    Writer xmlString = new StringWriter();
    OutputFormat output = new OutputFormat(xmlDocument);
    output.setIndenting(false);
    XMLSerializer x = new XMLSerializer(xmlString, output);
    x.serialize(xmlDocument);
    return xmlString.toString();
  }

Any help would be appreciated.

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Samuel Zarza Fernández
e-mail: szarza@cestel.es
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