Java store xml file contents into a string

I have a static method that creates an xml file and I would like it to return the raw xml file as a string. Afte开发者_开发百科r creating the xml file I would like to read from the file and convert it to a string. How do I go about doing so?

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http://guava-libraries.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/com/google/common/io/Files.html

Joiner.on('').join(Files.readLines(file, CharSet.fromName("UTF-8")))

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you could turn to, for the file handling, to the apache.commons.io library.

This one has build in convenience functions for reading and storing files.

So for reading

org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils#readFileToString(File file) 

and for writing

org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils#writeStringToFile(File file, String data)

See here for javadoc http://commons.apache.org/io/

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Here is a variety of ways of doing it:

• How to create a Java String from the contents of a file