CODE EXAMPLE FOR JAVASCRIPT

JavaScript parse XML to DOM

const xmlStr = '<q id="a"><span id="b">hey!</span></q>';
const parser = new DOMParser();
const doc = parser.parseFromString(xmlStr, "application/xml");
// print the name of the root element or error message
const errorNode = doc.querySelector("parsererror");
if (errorNode) {
  console.log("error while parsing");
} else {
  console.log(doc.documentElement.nodeName);
}