How to convert an Java.Lang.String to w3c.dom.Element

Using javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder class, an application programmer can obtain a org.w3c.dom.Document from XML.

	java.lang.Srting s = "<hello>Hello DOM Parser</hello>";
	java.io.InputStream sbis = new java.io.StringBufferInputStream(s);
	javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory b = javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
	b.setNamespaceAware(false);
	org.w3c.dom.Document doc = null;
	javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder db = null;
	db = b.newDocumentBuilder();
	doc = db.parse(sbis);

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This public org.w3c.dom.Document parse (InputStream is) has also other overloaded implementations for parsing a file; using the file name or the file objec(java.io.File)

Then you can retrieve the org.w3c.dom.Element by
    org.w3c.dom.Element e = doc.getDocumentElement();