Parse XML string

In this chapter you will learn:

How to parse an XML String

Parse XML String

The following code parses an XML data hard coded in the code.

First it wraps the string based XML data into a StringReader. Then the StringReader object is set to org.xml.sax.InputSource.

The actual parsing is done with DocumentBuilder and returns org.w3c.dom.Document.

import java.io.StringReader;
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import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

public class Main {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    InputSource is = new InputSource();
    is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xmlRecords));
    
    DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();    
    Document doc = db.parse(is);
  }
  static String xmlRecords = 
      "<data>" +
      "  <employee>" +
      "    <name>Tom</name>"+ 
      "    <title>Manager</title>" +
      "  </employee>" +
      "  <employee>" +
      "    <name>Jerry</name>"+ 
      "    <title>Programmer</title>" +
      "  </employee>" +
      "</data>";
}