Parsing String data into an SVG document?

[Bishop, Michael W. CONTR J9C880]

If I receive a snippet of XML as a String, I’d like to create an SVGDocument from it.  The ultimate goal is to import it into another document.  In the case of whiteboarding over XMPP, I receive the following:   <rect x=”10” y=”10” width=”10” height=”10”/>   I’d like to use the SAXSVGDocumentFactory to load this as an SVGDocument.  The only way I can see how to do this is to provide a URI.  Is there a way I can go from String data to SVGDocument?  The ultimate goal is to receive a String and import it as a Node in my whiteboard.  My solution was to create an SVGDocument based on the String data, then import the node from one document to the other.  I’m struggling with going from String -> DOM.   Michael Bishop