def getElemPrettyXml(node):
    """
    Return prettyfied text value of xml element 
    (include all its children in the Xml string)
    """
    return node.toprettyxml(indent="  ", encoding="utf-8")
    ###OLD CODE:
    #s = StringIO()
    ## See: http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/pyxml/printing.html
    #PrettyPrint( node, stream=s, encoding='UTF-8', indent='  ', preserveElements=None )
    #result = s.getvalue()
    #s.close()
    #return result
    ###END