load W3C xml Document object from a String

loadXMLFromString.java

public static org.w3c.dom.Document loadXMLFromString(String xml)
		throws org.xml.sax.SAXException, java.io.IOException {
	return loadXMLFrom(new java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes()));
}

public static org.w3c.dom.Document loadXMLFrom(java.io.InputStream is)
		throws org.xml.sax.SAXException, java.io.IOException {
	javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory factory = javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory
			.newInstance();
	factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
	javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder builder = null;
	try {
		builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
	} catch (javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException ex) {
	}
	org.w3c.dom.Document doc = builder.parse(is);
	is.close();
	return doc;
}