Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import java.io.*; public class Main { public static Document xmlFromString(String xml) { Document doc; DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); try { DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); InputSource is = new InputSource(); is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml)); doc = db.parse(is); } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { System.out.println("XML parse error: " + e.getMessage()); return null; } catch (SAXException e) { System.out.println("Wrong XML file structure: " + e.getMessage()); return null; } catch (IOException e) { System.out.println("I/O exeption: " + e.getMessage()); return null; } return doc; } }