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.Element; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { /** * Get root element from XML String * * @param arg * XML String * @return Root Element * @throws ParserConfigurationException * @throws SAXException * @throws IOException */ public static Element getDocumentElementFromString(String arg) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException { DocumentBuilderFactory dbf; DocumentBuilder db; Document document; dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); document = db.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(arg))); Element element = document.getDocumentElement(); return element; } }