import java.io.StringReader;
import org.dom4j.Document;
import org.dom4j.DocumentException;
import org.dom4j.Element;
import org.dom4j.dom.DOMDocument;
import org.dom4j.dom.DOMDocumentFactory;
import org.dom4j.io.SAXReader;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException {
String newNode = "value";
String text = "";
DOMDocumentFactory factory = new DOMDocumentFactory();
SAXReader reader2 = new SAXReader();
reader2.setDocumentFactory(factory);
org.dom4j.Document document = reader2.read(new StringReader(text));
Document newNodeDocument = reader2.read(new StringReader(newNode));
Element givenNode = document.getRootElement().element("given");
givenNode.add(newNodeDocument.getRootElement());
org.dom4j.dom.DOMDocument w3cDoc = (DOMDocument) document;
org.w3c.dom.Element e = w3cDoc.createElement("div");
e.setAttribute("id", "someattr");
w3cDoc.getDocumentElement().getFirstChild().insertBefore(e, w3cDoc.getDocumentElement().getElementsByTagName("node").item(0));
System.out.println(document.asXML());
}
}