How to convert String to DOM Document object in java?

Question

I have a case like getting an XML and convert the XML elements to document object and getting the element values and attributes which i have been created already

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Answer 1

Either escape the double quotes with \

String xmlString = "<element attribname=\"value\" attribname1=\"value1\"> pcdata</element>"

or use single quotes instead

String xmlString = "<element attribname='value' attribname1='value1'> pcdata</element>"

Answer 2

     public static void main(String[] args) {
    final String xmlStr = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n"+
                            "<Emp id=\"1\"><name>Pankaj</name><age>25</age>\n"+
                            "<role>Developer</role><gen>Male</gen></Emp>";
   DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();  
        DocumentBuilder builder;  
        try 
        {  
            builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();  
            Document doc = builder.parse( new InputSource( new StringReader( xmlStr )) ); 

        } catch (Exception e) {  
            e.printStackTrace();  
        } 
  }

Answer 3

you can try

DocumentBuilder db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
InputSource is = new InputSource();
is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader("<root><node1></node1></root>"));

Document doc = db.parse(is);

refer this http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/XML/ParseanXMLstringUsingDOMandaStringReader.htm

Answer 4

DocumentBuilder db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = db.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlString.getBytes("UTF-8"))); //remove the parameter UTF-8 if you don't want to specify the Encoding type.

this works well for me even though the XML structure is complex.

And please make sure your xmlString is valid for XML, notice the escape character should be added "\" at the front.

The main problem might not come from the attributes.