In Java, how do I parse XML as a String instead of a file?

java xml string file parsing
Dewayne picture Dewayne · Feb 18, 2009 · Viewed 261.3k times · Source

I have the following code: 

DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(xmlFile);

How can I get it to parse XML contained within a String instead of a file?

Answer

shsteimer picture shsteimer · Feb 18, 2009

I have this function in my code base, this should work for you.

public static Document loadXMLFromString(String xml) throws Exception
{
    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
    InputSource is = new InputSource(new StringReader(xml));
    return builder.parse(is);
}

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