gistfile1.java

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);