XML: How to convert xml string into Node/Document

I have a string in xml form.
<name>
<first/>
<second/>
</name>
I want to convert this string into DOM Node or Document.
How can I do this?
Any help or pointer?
TIA
Sachin

Try this :
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = db.parse(new org.xml.sax.InputSource(new StringReader(strXml)));Hope this helps.

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