Parsing from a string of XML?

Hi there,
I'm using DOM to parse some XML. However, the XML is not in a file, it's in a String. So the DocumentBuilder's parse(...) method takes an InputStream or File object but I'm looking to parse a String. Can anybody help me??
Cheers,
Sean

Ok I found out a way to parse an XML string:
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
StringReader sr = new StringReader(xmlString.toString());
InputSource is = new InputSource(sr);
document = builder.parse(is);
But I'm getting the following error on the parse() line:
[Fatal Error] :1:20: A pseudo attribute name is expected.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: A pseudo attribute name is expected.
     at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
     at test.TestDOM.main(TestDOM.java:61)
The XML string is:
String xmlString = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"><tag><tag_id>250397</tag_id><reader_id>1</reader_id><rssi>74</rssi><date>7/19/2006</date><time>2:59:47 PM</time></tag>";
Can anybody help?
Cheers,
Sean

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