Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.StringReader; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { public static Node parseXMLSnippet(String s) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException { Document doc = parseXML(s); return doc.getFirstChild(); } public static Document parseXML(String s) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException { DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = db.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(s))); return doc; } }