--- a/artifacts-common/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifacts/common/utils/XMLUtils.java	Wed Mar 02 10:21:19 2011 +0000
+++ b/artifacts-common/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifacts/common/utils/XMLUtils.java	Wed Mar 02 10:30:27 2011 +0000
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 package de.intevation.artifacts.common.utils;
 
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
@@ -307,5 +308,21 @@
 
         return false;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Transforms an XML document into a byte array.
+     * @param document The document to be streamed out.
+     * @return the byte array or null if operation failed or
+     * document is null.
+     */
+    public static byte [] toByteArray(Document document) {
+        if (document == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        return toStream(document, baos)
+            ? baos.toByteArray()
+            : null;
+    }
 }
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