Retrieving XMLs while parsing them

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While parsing an XML, given a Node object, can I retrieve the raw XML that corresponds to that Node? I'm using Java and parsing the XML using JDOM.

fasseg · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-23 14:08:42Z

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Element.toString() should return a String representation of the Element but you can also use the XMLOutputter for that purpose (for writing the xml to some outputstream):

Element e=document.getRootElement();
XmlOutputter outputter=new XmlOutputter();
outputter.output(e,System.out);

this simple snippet should write the XML of the root element to stdout.

hope that helped..

answered Jul 23, 2010 at 14:08

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Vijay Dev Over a year ago

hmm thats what I wanted. Element.toString() won't work though. It returns [Element: <question/>] (question being my tag). XMLOutputter does the job. I used outputString(Element element) to get the raw XML as a String.

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