Get and set value through XPath : XPath « XML « Java Tutorial

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import java.io.FileReader;

import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Attr;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

public class GetNameAsAttr {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
    XPath xPath = factory.newXPath();

    Attr result = (Attr) xPath.evaluate("/schedule/@name", new InputSource(
        new FileReader("tds.xml")), XPathConstants.NODE);
    System.out.println(result.getValue());

    result.setValue("The Colbert Report");

  }
}