How to get a part of xml document in String format

[Aryan Khan]

Hi all,
How to get a portion of a xml document in String format.

<A>
 <B>    
  <C>
   <D>
 
   </D>
  </C>
 </B>
</A>

>
So I want to read only from element B (So it wil B C & D) and get the representation of this in String with the xml tag names as well.
I tried XPath which provides the element values only and not the tag names.

Also want to avoid recursively iterating and generating the xml document.

Looking for some thing neat like (XPath not necessary):

XPath.evaluate("B","XMLDoc.xml") // and the result be as above.
Thanks

P.S. the xml documents do not have any attributes.

[Aryan Khan]

Any one pls?

[Aryan Khan]

Ok I found a pretty good solution.

I put a simple XSL stylesheet like:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

This ll actually copy the xml document.

Then I used the XSL transformation java api to call this from application and pass the DOM...

Aryan