Converting Document object to Byte[]

Question

I am init Document object like this:

DocumentBuilderFactory docFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = docBuilder.newDocument();

After that I am building an XML file by inserting data to the doc object.

Finally I am writing the contents to a file on my computer.

My question is how to write the contents of doc in to a byte[]?*

This is how i write the content to the XML file:

TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new File("changeOut.xml"));
// Output to console for testing
// StreamResult result = new StreamResult(System.out);
transformer.transform(source, result);

swapy · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-10 11:32:33Z

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Pass OutputStream instead of File to the StreamResult constructor.

 ByteArrayOutputStream bos=new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 StreamResult result=new StreamResult(bos);
 transformer.transform(source, result);
 byte []array=bos.toByteArray();

edited Dec 10, 2012 at 11:32

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answered Aug 16, 2012 at 7:49

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Adrian · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-08 14:34:19Z

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This work for me:

public byte[] documentToByte(Document document)
{
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    org.apache.xml.security.utils.XMLUtils.outputDOM(document, baos, true);
    return baos.toByteArray();
}

answered May 8, 2013 at 14:34

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Gayathri Rajan Over a year ago

Do you have dependency details of org.apache.xml.security.utils.XMLUtils.outputDOM ? I got only node support class file

Tom · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-16 07:49:18Z

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Put a ByteArrayOutputStream where you have the File and you should be good.

answered Aug 16, 2012 at 7:49

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