How to parse xml string using JSTL

Suppose this is my string:-----
<books>
<book>
<title id=1>Book Title A</title>
<author>A. B. C.</author>
<price>17.95</price>
</book>
<book>
<title id=2>Book Title B</title>
<author>X. Y. Z.</author>
<price>24.99</price>
</book>
</books>
and I want to read title id = 1 then, how to parse it, I found tutorials regarding parsing simple xml document but how to parse attributes of a given XML

But both of them either parse a file or data from an input source. I don't think they handle strings.An InputSource can be constructed with a Reader as input. One useful subclass of Reader is StringReader, so you'd use something likeDocument doc = documentBuilder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(myXMLString)));

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