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

If you're using dom4j, you can just do:

Document document = DocumentHelper.parseText(text);

(dom4j now found here: https://github.com/dom4j/dom4j)