Return a Thymeleaf view as just a string in a Spring MVC Controller
<p>I have a nice little Spring 4 MVC site going with Thymeleaf 3Beta. It works great to render HTML to the browser, but there's a case where I need to render the HTML into just a string before loosing control of the controller method.</p>

<p>So what I am asking, how do call the Thymeleaf bean up, make it run a view and return it to me as just a string that I can then send to something else? </p>

<p>Is this even possible?</p>