import java.io.File; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; 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.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = builder.parse(new File("in.xml")); TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(); transformer.setOutputProperty("indent", "yes"); StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(); StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw); NodeList nl = doc.getDocumentElement().getChildNodes(); DOMSource source = null; for (int x = 0; x < nl.getLength(); x++) { Node e = nl.item(x); if (e instanceof Element) { source = new DOMSource(e); break; } } transformer.transform(source, result); System.out.println(sw.toString()); } }