Xml Dom Document to Formatted String

[DeadEyes]

This is probably really easy but I can't see how to do it. I have a org.w3c.dom.Document and I want to output it's contents to a JTextArea,
for example:
<employee id="111">
<name>bob</name>
<age>34</age>
</employee>

Iterating through all the nodes and attributes would appear to be more work than I thought necessary.

Can any one point me in the right direction.

[ComputerJy]

You have to read all tags and values and print them out

[DeadEyes]

Not what I wanted to hear, but thanks all the same ComputerJy.

[DeadEyes]

I came acroos this it does the trick.

public String toString() {
		String output = "";
		Transformer transformer;
		try {
			transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
			StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
			StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw);
			if (transformer != null) {
			transformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc.getDocumentElement()),result);
			output = sw.toString();
			System.err.println("output: " + output);
			}else{
			System.err.println("No Transformer");
			}
		} catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (TransformerFactoryConfigurationError e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (TransformerException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return output;
    }

[CornedBee]

Also, in Java5 you should look into org.w3c.dom.ls, that's where DOM Level 3 Load & Save resides.

[DeadEyes]

Thanks for the tip CornedBee