Convert String XML fragment to Document Node in Java

Question

In Java how can you convert a String that represents a fragment of XML for insertion into an XML document?

e.g.

String newNode =  \"valu         


        

Answer 1

Element node =  DocumentBuilderFactory
    .newInstance()
    .newDocumentBuilder()
    .parse(new ByteArrayInputStream("<node>value</node>".getBytes()))
    .getDocumentElement();

Answer 2

/**
*
* Convert a string to a Document Object
*
* @param xml The xml to convert
* @return A document Object
* @throws IOException
* @throws SAXException
* @throws ParserConfigurationException
*/
public static Document string2Document(String xml) throws IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException {

    if (xml == null)
    return null;

    return inputStream2Document(new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes()));

}


/**
* Convert an inputStream to a Document Object
* @param inputStream The inputstream to convert
* @return a Document Object
* @throws IOException
* @throws SAXException
* @throws ParserConfigurationException
*/
public static Document inputStream2Document(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException, SAXException, ParserConfigurationException {
    DocumentBuilderFactory newInstance = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    newInstance.setNamespaceAware(true);
    Document parse = newInstance.newDocumentBuilder().parse(inputStream);
    return parse;
}