Convert string to java xml element

There are several ways to parse XML from a string:

Example 1 :

  String xml = "Your XML";
  DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
  DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
  Document doc = db.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes("UTF-8")));     

Example 2 :

Using SAXParser, which can read a data source:

 SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
 SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
 DefaultHandler handler = new DefaultHandler() {
 saxParser.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader("Your XML")), handler);    

See: SAXParser , InputSource