Convert xml to Java String

[Shankar sanjay]

Hi I am having the following xml document (sample)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns:employee xmlns:ns="http://sample/simple/something/1/" xmlns:urn="urn:ifxforum-org:XSD:1" xmlns:v1="http://schemas.xx.yy.zz/v2.0">
	<urn:EmpDetails>
		<urn:EmpID>1</urn:EmpID>
		<urn:Communication>
			<urn:Address>
				<urn:AptNo>myhomeAptNo</urn:AptNo>
				<urn:Street>homestreet</urn:Street>
				<urn:Provinence>UK-LN</urn:Provinence>
			</urn:Address>
		</urn:Communication>
	</urn:EmpDetails>
	<urn:EmpDetails>
		<urn:EmpID>2</urn:EmpID>
		<urn:Communication>
			<urn:Address>
				<urn:AptNo>myhomeAptNo</urn:AptNo>
				<urn:Street>homestreet</urn:Street>
				<urn:Provinence>UK-LN</urn:Provinence>
			</urn:Address>
		</urn:Communication>
	</urn:EmpDetails>	
</ns:employee>

I want to create each EmpDetails as String of xml format, how to convert? for sample i want to convert to java String.(name space has to be included)

Java String 1:
========
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urn:EmpDetails  xmlns:ns="http://sample/simple/something/1/" xmlns:urn="urn:ifxforum-org:XSD:1" xmlns:v1="http://schemas.xx.yy.zz/v2.0">
		<urn:EmpID>1</urn:EmpID>
		<urn:Communication>
			<urn:Address>
				<urn:AptNo>myhomeAptNo</urn:AptNo>
				<urn:Street>homestreet</urn:Street>
				<urn:Provinence>UK-LN</urn:Provinence>
			</urn:Address>
		</urn:Communication>
	</urn:EmpDetails>	

java string 2:
========
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urn:EmpDetails  xmlns:ns="http://sample/simple/something/1/" xmlns:urn="urn:ifxforum-org:XSD:1" xmlns:v1="http://schemas.xx.yy.zz/v2.0">
		<urn:EmpID>2</urn:EmpID>
		<urn:Communication>
			<urn:Address>
				<urn:AptNo>myhomeAptNo</urn:AptNo>
				<urn:Street>homestreet</urn:Street>
				<urn:Provinence>UK-LN</urn:Provinence>
			</urn:Address>
		</urn:Communication>
	</urn:EmpDetails>

any idea?

[Jeff Verdegan]

Nevermind. My mistake.

[Paul Clapham]

I would load the document into a DOM, and then for each element for which you want to output a String, use an identity XSL transformation to transform it into a String.

Or did you already have that idea but you had a problem with some particular part of it? If so, asking about that particular part would have been more practical.

[Shankar sanjay]

Looking some idea or some sample code, the problem is extracting with name space

[Paul Clapham]

That was an idea. You can get sample code from the tutorials.

And no, the namespaces are not a problem. Why do you say that is "the" problem?