Java Node to String Conversion

When trying to convert a org.w3c.dom.Node to a string, I initial tried using toString(). I assumed toString() would give me text content of the XML contained in the node but it was not going to be that easy today, it gave me some kind of pointer gobbledeguck back.

OK then, with some investigation, I found that toString() shouldn't really be relied upon, so I have written the following method using StringWriter and Transform methods.

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

import java.io.StringWriter;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

private String nodeToString(Node node) {
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
try {
Transformer t = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
t.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
t.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(sw));
} catch (TransformerException te) {
System.out.println("nodeToString Transformer Exception");
}
return sw.toString();
}

Node to String...Converted.