Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; 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.Element; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { private final static DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); /** * Convert and xml String to an org.w3c.dom.Element * @param xml - the XML * @return - the Element */ public static Element stringToElement(String xml) { Element element = null; try { Document document = getDocumentBuilder().parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml))); element = (Element) document.getDocumentElement().cloneNode(true); } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } return element; } private static synchronized DocumentBuilder getDocumentBuilder() { try { return documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { throw new RuntimeException("failed to create a new DocumentBuilder", e); } } }