Snippets for working with XML in Java

DomUtil.java

public final class DomUtil {

    private DomUtil() {
        // prevent instantiation
    }

    public static Document stringToDocument(String xml) throws Exception {
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        InputSource input = new InputSource(new StringReader(xml));
        return factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(input);
    }

    public static String documentToString(Document doc) throws TransformerException {
        DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
        TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();
        transformer.transform(source, result);
        return writer.toString();
    }

}