Android: Get XML from SAX Element

Can I get a string of XML from a SAX Element class in Android? For example, in DOM parsing in .NET, we can get the OuterXml or InnerXml of a node. Unless I'm overlooking something, it seems that there is no way to do that either using SAX or DOM parsing in Android. Am I right about that (I hope not)?

Using SAX, we can do something like:

Element childElt = rootElt.getChild(CHILD_ELT_NAME);
if(childElt != null) {
 childElt.setEndTextElementListener(new EndTextElementListener() {
  @Override
  public void end(String body) {
   //Do something with the body string
  }
 });
}

That will allow us to get at the "value" of the child element. Is there anything similar开发者_运维问答 that will allow us to get at the XML representation of the element and its children?

Thank you.

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If you are attempting to do operations that are tree structure sensitive, you should use DOM. What you appear to be trying to do would seem to fit that description, so I would suggest you use a DOM parser.

For a discussion of SAX v. Dom (Event vs. Tree) see: http://www.saxproject.org/event.html

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With VTD-XML, you can get the token index and convert them to string for further processing, if simplicity is what you look for.