Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import java.io.IOException; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; public class Main { public static Document loadXMLFromString(String theXML_URL) { DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder db; try { db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = db.parse(new URL(theXML_URL).openStream()); return doc; } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { return null; } catch (MalformedURLException e) { return null; } catch (SAXException e) { return null; } catch (IOException e) { return null; } } }