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 parseXML(String text) throws SAXException, ParserConfigurationException, IOException { DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder parser = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); InputSource source = new InputSource(new StringReader(text)); Document doc = parser.parse(source); if (doc == null) { throw new NullPointerException(); } return doc.getFirstChild(); } }