Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.*; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; public class Main { public static Element parseElement(String xml) { try { DocumentBuilderFactory dbfac = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder docBuilder = dbfac.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = docBuilder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes())); return doc.getDocumentElement(); } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } } }