Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; 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 createDocument(String xmlString) throws SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException, UnsupportedEncodingException { Document xmlDocument = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder() .parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlString.getBytes("UTF8"))); return xmlDocument; } }