--- a/gnv/src/main/java/de/intevation/gnv/util/XMLUtils.java	Tue Mar 16 10:30:13 2010 +0000
+++ b/gnv/src/main/java/de/intevation/gnv/util/XMLUtils.java	Wed Mar 17 13:31:38 2010 +0000
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.StringBufferInputStream;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 
@@ -219,5 +220,27 @@
         transformer.transform(source, result);
         return sw.getBuffer().toString();
     }
+
+   public static boolean toStream(Document document, OutputStream out) {
+        try {
+            Transformer transformer =
+                TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
+            DOMSource    source = new DOMSource(document);
+            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(out);
+            transformer.transform(source, result);
+            return true;
+        }
+        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 false;
+    } 
 }
 // vim:set ts=4 sw=4 si et sta sts=4 fenc=utf8: