Index: DOMUtilities.java
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--- DOMUtilities.java	(revision 498532)
+++ DOMUtilities.java	(working copy)
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@
 import java.io.Writer;
 
 import org.apache.batik.xml.XMLUtilities;
+import org.apache.batik.transcoder.Transcoder;
+import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderException;
+import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderInput;
+import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderOutput;
+import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscodingHints;
+import org.apache.batik.transcoder.svg2svg.SVGTranscoder;
 import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
 import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
 import org.w3c.dom.DOMImplementation;
@@ -54,6 +60,17 @@
             writeNode(n, w);
         }
     }
+    
+    /** 
+     * Writes the given document (in pretty printer format) using the given writer.
+     */ 
+    public static void writeDocument(Document doc, Writer w, TranscodingHints hints) throws IOException, TranscoderException {
+        Transcoder transcoder = new SVGTranscoder();
+        TranscoderInput in = new TranscoderInput(doc);
+        TranscoderOutput out = new TranscoderOutput(w);
+        transcoder.setTranscodingHints(hints);
+        transcoder.transcode(in, out);
+    }
 
     /**
      * Writes a node using the given writer.