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.InputSource; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { private static final String ENCODING = "utf-8"; public static Document stringToDocument(final String string) throws ParserConfigurationException, UnsupportedEncodingException, SAXException, IOException { final DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setNamespaceAware(true); final DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); return builder.parse(new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(string.getBytes(ENCODING)))); } }