Jsoup best method to get an Element from a string

Question

How can I obtain a Jsoup Element from a String? For example if I have a String

String myDiv = "<div>Hello jsoup world</div>";

that I want to convert in an Element. Currently I convert the String in a Document with the Jsoup.parse(..) method and then I get the body of that document as Element. Is there a direct method?

Answer 1

You can use the XML-Parser instead the HTML one:

final String html = "<div>Hello jsoup world</div>";

Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html, "", Parser.xmlParser());
Element tag = doc;

Or shorter:

Element tag = Jsoup.parse(html, "", Parser.xmlParser());

Answer 2

As a note to the accepted answer, for my use case, using the xmlParser messed up some instances of '>' literals (inline style tag), changing them into HTML string entities.

It seems that using Parser.htmlParser() may be a better option in some cases, and the result can cast to Element.

Element element = Jsoup.parse(html, "", Parser.htmlParser());