mxXmlUtils.java

/**
 * $Id: mxXmlUtils.java,v 1.1 2012/11/15 13:26:39 gaudenz Exp $
 * Copyright (c) 2007-2012, JGraph Ltd
 */
package com.mxgraph.util;

import java.io.StringReader;
import java.io.StringWriter;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

/**
 * Contains various XML helper methods for use with mxGraph.
 */
public class mxXmlUtils
{
	/**
	 * Returns a new document for the given XML string.
	 * 
	 * @param xml
	 *            String that represents the XML data.
	 * @return Returns a new XML document.
	 */
	public static Document parseXml(String xml)
	{
		try
		{
			DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory
					.newInstance();
			DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();

			return docBuilder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));
		}
		catch (Exception e)
		{
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		return null;
	}
	
	/**
	 * Returns a string that represents the given node.
	 * 
	 * @param node
	 *            Node to return the XML for.
	 * @return Returns an XML string.
	 */
	public static String getXml(Node node)
	{
		try
		{
			Transformer tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();

			tf.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
			tf.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8");

			StreamResult dest = new StreamResult(new StringWriter());
			tf.transform(new DOMSource(node), dest);

			return dest.getWriter().toString();
		}
		catch (Exception e)
		{
			// ignore
		}

		return "";
	}
}