Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { public static Document returnDocFromStringUTF16(String str) throws ParserConfigurationException, UnsupportedEncodingException, SAXException, IOException { Document document = null; DocumentBuilder db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder(); document = db.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(str.getBytes("utf-16"))); return document; } }