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

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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

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Convert the string to an InputStream and pass it to DocumentBuilder

final InputStream stream = new ByteArrayInputStream(string.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
builder.parse(stream);

EDIT
In response to bendin's comment regarding encoding, see shsteimer's answer to this question.

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You can use the Scilca XML Progession package available at GitHub   XMLIterator xi   new VirtualXML XMLIterator   lt xml   gt     XMLReader xr   new XMLReader xi   Document d   xr parseDocument

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I m using this method  public Document parseXmlFromString String xmlString       DocumentBuilderFactory factory   DocumentBuilderFactory newInstance        DocumentBuilder builder   factory newDocumentBuilder        InputStream inputStream   new    ByteArrayInputStream xmlString getBytes         org w3c dom Document document   builder parse inputStream       return document

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javadocs show that the parse method is overloaded   Create a StringStream or InputSource using your string XML and you should be set

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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       also see this similar question

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One way is to use the version of parse that takes an InputSource rather than a file  A SAX InputSource can be constructed from a Reader object  One Reader object is the StringReader  So something like  parse new InputSource new StringReader myString    may work

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