Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Apache License import java.io.IOException; import java.io.Reader; import java.io.StringReader; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { public static Document documentFromString(String xml) throws SAXException, IOException { Reader reader = new StringReader(xml); InputSource source = new InputSource(reader); DocumentBuilder db = newDocumentBuilder(false); return db.parse(source); } public static DocumentBuilder newDocumentBuilder() { return newDocumentBuilder(true); } public static DocumentBuilder newDocumentBuilder(boolean validating) { try { DocumentBuilderFactory dbfac = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); dbfac.setNamespaceAware(true); dbfac.setValidating(validating); return dbfac.newDocumentBuilder(); } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } } }