Document To Byte Array   

Here's a method that returns the string representation of a given org.w3c.dom.Node object (usually an instance of org.w3c.dom.Element or org.w3c.dom.Document):


import java.io.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
 
public class Util {
 
    public static byte[] doc2bytes(Node node) {
        try {
            Source source = new DOMSource(node);
            ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
            Result result = new StreamResult(out);
            TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();
            transformer.transform(source, result);
            return out.toByteArray();
        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (TransformerException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }
}


(See also DocumentToString)