Java store xml file contents into a string

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I have a static method that creates an xml file and I would like it to return the raw xml file as a string. After creating the xml file I would like to read from the file and convert it to a string. How do I go about doing so?

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/file.html — OrangeDog, Feb 08 '11 at 22:44

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 08 '11 at 22:40

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http://guava-libraries.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/com/google/common/io/Files.html

Joiner.on('').join(Files.readLines(file, CharSet.fromName("UTF-8")))

answered Feb 08 '11 at 22:40

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just make sure the charset specified matches the xml file, or you will corrupt the file. – jtahlborn Feb 08 '11 at 23:23

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 08 '11 at 22:37

you could turn to, for the file handling, to the apache.commons.io library.

This one has build in convenience functions for reading and storing files.

So for reading

org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils#readFileToString(File file)

and for writing

org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils#writeStringToFile(File file, String data)

See here for javadoc http://commons.apache.org/io/

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Here is a variety of ways of doing it:

How to create a Java String from the contents of a file

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Feb 08 '11 at 22:42

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Java store xml file contents into a string

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