How to convert string to xml

Question

I have a string which contains XML data and I want to convert it to XML document object. How do I do that?

Answer 1

say theString holds the XML,

        DocumentBuilderFactory dbfac = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        DocumentBuilder docBuilder = dbfac.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document doc = docBuilder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(theString)));

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