Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* jCAE stand for Java Computer Aided Engineering. Features are : Small CAD modeler, Finite element mesher, Plugin architecture. Copyright (C) 2003,2004,2005, by EADS CRC Copyright (C) 2008, by EADS France This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ import java.io.IOException; import java.io.StringReader; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; 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 { /** Parse a valid xml string and return the Element representing this string. */ public static Element parseXMLString(Document document, String string) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document subDoc = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(string))); Element e = subDoc.getDocumentElement(); return (Element) document.importNode(e, true); } }