Method asXml

src/main/java/org/htmlunit/html/DomNode.java:784–803

Returns a string representation as XML document from this element and all it's children (recursively). The charset used in the xml header is the current page encoding; but the result is still a string. You have to make sure to use the correct (in fact the same) encoding if you write this to a fi

()

     * @return the XML string
     */
    public String asXml() {
        Charset charsetName = null;
        final HtmlPage htmlPage = getHtmlPageOrNull();
        if (htmlPage != null) {
            charsetName = htmlPage.getCharset();
        }

        final StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
        try (PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(stringWriter)) {
            boolean tag = false;
            if (charsetName != null && this instanceof HtmlHtml) {
                printWriter.print("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"");
                printWriter.print(charsetName);
                printWriter.print("\"?>");
                tag = true;
            }
            printXml("", tag, printWriter);
            return stringWriter.toString();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Recursively writes the XML data for the node tree starting at <code>node</code>.