Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: GNU General Public 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; public class Main { /** * Convert String to an XML document. */ public static Document stringToXML(String xml) { try { return parseReader(new StringReader(xml)); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return null; } public static Document parseReader(Reader reader) throws org.xml.sax.SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException { return newDocumentBuilder().parse(new org.xml.sax.InputSource(reader)); } private static DocumentBuilder newDocumentBuilder() throws ParserConfigurationException { // SAXParsers are not concurrency compatible, so always return a new instance to prevent thread issues DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); dbf.setNamespaceAware(true); return dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); } }