Same problem. To solve it I wrote this helper function:
public String innerXml(Node node) {
DOMImplementationLS lsImpl = (DOMImplementationLS)node.getOwnerDocument().getImplementation().getFeature("LS", "3.0");
LSSerializer lsSerializer = lsImpl.createLSSerializer();
NodeList childNodes = node.getChildNodes();
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < childNodes.getLength(); i++) {
sb.append(lsSerializer.writeToString(childNodes.item(i)));
}
return sb.toString();
}