[java] How to convert XML to java.util.Map and vice versa

I found this on google, but I don't want to use XStream, because it causes to much overhead in my environment. I only needed to parse a file and since I did not find anything I like I created my own simple solution for parsing a file of the format that you describe. So here is my solution:

public class XmlToMapUtil {
    public static Map<String, String> parse(InputSource inputSource) throws SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException {
        final DataCollector handler = new DataCollector();
        SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser().parse(inputSource, handler);
        return handler.result;
    }

    private static class DataCollector extends DefaultHandler {
        private final StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
        private final Map<String, String> result = new HashMap<String, String>();

        @Override
        public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException {
            final String value = buffer.toString().trim();
            if (value.length() > 0) {
                result.put(qName, value);
            }
            buffer.setLength(0);
        }

        @Override
        public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException {
            buffer.append(ch, start, length);
        }
    }
}

Here are a couple of TestNG+FEST Assert Tests:

public class XmlToMapUtilTest {

    @Test(dataProvider = "provide_xml_entries")
    public void parse_returnsMapFromXml(String xml, MapAssert.Entry[] entries) throws Exception {
        // execution
        final Map<String, String> actual = XmlToMapUtil.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));

        // evaluation
        assertThat(actual)
            .includes(entries)
            .hasSize(entries.length);
    }

    @DataProvider
    public Object[][] provide_xml_entries() {
        return new Object[][]{
                {"<root />", new MapAssert.Entry[0]},

                {
                    "<root><a>aVal</a></root>", new MapAssert.Entry[]{
                            MapAssert.entry("a", "aVal")
                    },
                },

                {
                    "<root><a>aVal</a><b>bVal</b></root>", new MapAssert.Entry[]{
                            MapAssert.entry("a", "aVal"),
                            MapAssert.entry("b", "bVal")
                    },
                },

                {
                    "<root> \t <a>\taVal </a><b /></root>", new MapAssert.Entry[]{
                            MapAssert.entry("a", "aVal")
                    },
                },
        };
    }
}