package org.apache.ws.scout.util;

 import java.io.StringWriter;

 import javax.xml.transform.Source;

 import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;

 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;

 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;

 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;

 import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;

 import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;

 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

 import org.w3c.dom.Node;

 /**

  * Utilies for covertion between w3c formats and XML.

  * @author Kurt Stam (kurt.stam@jboss.com)

  */

 public class XMLUtils {

         private static Log log = LogFactory.getLog(XMLUtils.class);

         /**

          * Convert a org.w3c.dom.Node into an XML representation.

          * @param node - containing an xml tree.

          * @return - String containing the XML.

          */

         public static String convertNodeToXMLString(Node node)

           {

                   String xml=null;

                   try {

                       Source source = new DOMSource(node);

                       StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();

                       javax.xml.transform.Result result = new StreamResult(stringWriter);

                       TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();

                       Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();

                       transformer.transform(source, result);

                       xml=stringWriter.getBuffer().toString();

                   } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {

                       log.error("Could not obtain the XML. ", e);

                   } catch (TransformerException e) {

                           log.error("Could not obtain the XML. ",e);

                   }

                   return xml;

           }

 }