Creating a Document Object from XML

Reading first from a String containing xml
Reading secondly from a file containing xml

public Document loadXmlFromString(final String xml) throws Exception {
 DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
 factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
 DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
 return builder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes()));
}

private Document loadXmlFromFile(final String fileLocation) throws Exception {
 Document doc = null;
 DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
 factory.setNamespaceAware(true); // never forget this!
 DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
 doc = builder.parse(fileLocation);
}