XMLStreamReader to InputStream

[Arundhathi Menon]

Hi,

My webservice call returns an XMLStreamReader. I would like to know how to extract just the string representation of the whole xml so that I can dump it in the DB for future processing.

I short , converting the XMLStreamReader's content into an outputstream is what I need.

Can someone help?

Thanks in advance

Menon

[Paul Clapham]

Then you need an identity Transformer. When you call its transform(Source, Result) method the Source should be a StAXSource which wraps that XMLStreamReader, and the Result should be a StreamResult which wraps a StringWriter.

[Robert Papp]

Paul Clapham wrote:Then you need an identity Transformer. When you call its transform(Source, Result) method the Source should be a StAXSource which wraps that XMLStreamReader, and the Result should be a StreamResult which wraps a StringWriter.

I think what he meant was:

import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError;
import javax.xml.transform.stax.StAXSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

    private String getOuterXml(XMLStreamReader xmlr) throws TransformerConfigurationException,
        TransformerFactoryConfigurationError, TransformerException
    {
        Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
        StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
        transformer.transform(new StAXSource(xmlr), new StreamResult(stringWriter));
        return stringWriter.toString();
    }