How to find the length of the xml data in the Document Object

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Hi

I wanted to send the xml data to a servlet as document. I am using xerces Java xml parser to do that. I can create the Document. Is there a way to find out the content length of the document so that I can set the Content-length parameter

Thanks
Chandra

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one easy way is to have the document write the xml out to a string and interrogate the string for length.

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That is what I am looking for,I don't see any api calls for writing document to a string.

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Figured out myself. I didn't find any api in the document to convert in to string. Used xerces packag's XMLSerializer to serialize on to ByteArrayOutputStream and got the size from there. I see this as a round about way. Is there any better way of doing it

If some one tells me the better way duke dollars goes for them