--- a/artifacts-common/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifacts/common/utils/XMLUtils.java	Wed Jun 08 07:36:43 2011 +0000
+++ b/artifacts-common/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifacts/common/utils/XMLUtils.java	Thu Jun 09 09:33:29 2011 +0000
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
 
 import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext;
 import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
@@ -338,6 +339,30 @@
         return false;
     }
 
+    public String toString(Document document) {
+        try {
+            Transformer transformer =
+                TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
+            DOMSource    source = new DOMSource(document);
+            StringWriter out    = new StringWriter();
+            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(out);
+            transformer.transform(source, result);
+            out.flush();
+            return out.toString();
+        }
+        catch (TransformerConfigurationException tce) {
+            logger.error(tce.getLocalizedMessage(), tce);
+        }
+        catch (TransformerFactoryConfigurationError tfce) {
+            logger.error(tfce.getLocalizedMessage(), tfce);
+        }
+        catch (TransformerException te) {
+            logger.error(te.getLocalizedMessage(), te);
+        }
+
+        return null;
+    }
+
     public static byte [] toByteArray(Document document) {
         return toByteArray(document, false);
     }