Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { public static Document parse(String xmlStr) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setValidating(false); factory.setNamespaceAware(false); factory.setIgnoringComments(true); factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(false); factory.setCoalescing(false); factory.setExpandEntityReferences(true); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); ByteArrayInputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlStr.getBytes()); return builder.parse(inputStream); } }