[jdom-interest] writing XML to a String

[Raffaele Sena]

> Here's how I do it currently (against the most recent CVS):
> 
> ByteArrayOutputStream byteRep = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> XMLOutputter docWriter = new XMLOutputter("", false);
> 
> xmlWriter.output(document, byteRep);
> String stringRep = byteRep.toString();
> 
> This is untested as yet, but it should work.

    Yap! This is what I do, and it works fine:

        // Convert the result to XML (as String)
    XMLOutputter outputter = new XMLOutputter("  ", true);
    ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    outputter.output(doc, output);
    return output.toString();

-- Raffaele