How to serialize DOM in Java

Given a DOM Node

Node node ...

the following two ways can be used to serialize the Node into a String.

1. DOM3

DOMImplementationRegistry registry =
     DOMImplementationRegistry.newInstance();
DOMImplementationLS impl =
    (DOMImplementationLS) registry.getDOMImplementation("LS");
LSSerializer lsSerializer = impl.createLSSerializer();
String s = lsSerializer.writeToString(Node node);


2. JAXP

TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer serializer = tf.newTransformer();
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
serializer.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(sw));
String s = sw.getBuffer().toString();


In order to create XMLContent RDF, you may have to do two separate 
serialization steps for the nodes to go into xmlLeadingMisc and xmlRest 
depending on whether there is a document type declaration.


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