dom4j XML declaration in document

Question

I need to remove XML declaration from dom4j document type

I am creating document by

doc = (Document) DocumentHelper.parseText(someXMLstringWithoutXMLDeclaration);

String parsed to Document doc by DocumenHelper contains no XML declaration (it comes from XML => XSL => XML transformation) I think that DocumentHelper is adding declaration to a document body ?

Is there any way to remove XML declaration from the body of

doc

Answer 1

The simpler solution I choose is

doc.getRootElement().asXML();