Hi again,

Martin Honnen wrote:
> Loocek wrote:
> 
>> I need to find and extract inner xml and save as String.
>> I cannot find that functionality in any [DOM,SAX,STAX] xml parser in 
>> java...
>> I was able to do it in DOM by serializing Node - but is stupid 
>> solution....
> 
> I am not sure why it is a stupid solution. 
A "raw" input stream of data is read by parser. It creates  objects  in 
memory, next base on the object - we create a new "raw" stream that is 
exactly  substring of original string. It waste memory and cpu....


If you want the inner XML
> then you will have to serialize the child nodes, unless the object model 
> is not already providing properties like InnerXml (as for instance the 
> .NET framework's DOM model does:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlnode.innerxml.aspx)
I know it is simple. One method call ...
> 
> If you are using the W3C DOM then Level 3 has serialization features
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-LS/
> I think Java 5 and 6 implement that. In the browser world of the DOM 
> only Opera supports it but Mozilla has XmlSerializer and IE/MSXML have 
> the xml property on XML DOM nodes.


Thanks for fast answer.
Regards
Pawel Zawora