Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java * * Copyright (c) 2010, Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates or third-party contributors as * indicated by the @author tags or express copyright attribution * statements applied by the authors. All third-party contributions are * distributed under license by Red Hat, Inc. * * This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify, * copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU * Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License * for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License * along with this distribution; if not, write to: * Free Software Foundation, Inc. * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor * Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; public class Main { /** * Converts a String representing an XML snippet into an {@link org.w3c.dom.Element}. * * @param xml snippet as a string * * @return a DOM Element * * @throws Exception if unable to parse the String or if it doesn't contain valid XML. */ public static Element elementFromString(String xml) throws Exception { ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes("UTF-8")); DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document document = builder.parse(bais); bais.close(); return document.getDocumentElement(); } }