Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.IOException; 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.w3c.dom.Node; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { public static Node getRoot(String documentAsString) { final DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); try { final DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); final Document document = documentBuilder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(documentAsString))); return document.getFirstChild(); } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { throw new IllegalStateException(e); } catch (SAXException e) { throw new IllegalArgumentException(e); } catch (IOException e) { throw new IllegalStateException(e); } } }