Java tutorial
import java.util.List; import org.dom4j.Document; import org.dom4j.DocumentException; import org.dom4j.Node; import org.dom4j.io.SAXReader; public class Main { public static Document getDocument(final String xmlFileName) { Document document = null; SAXReader reader = new SAXReader(); try { document = reader.read(xmlFileName); } catch (DocumentException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return document; } public static void main(String[] args) { String xmlFileName = "data.xml"; String xPath = "//article/body/p"; Document document = getDocument(xmlFileName); List<Node> nodes = document.selectNodes(xPath); for (Node node : nodes) { String nodeXml = node.asXML(); System.out.println("Left >> " + nodeXml.substring(3, nodeXml.indexOf("<ref")).trim()); System.out.println( "Right >> " + nodeXml.substring(nodeXml.indexOf("</ref>") + 6, nodeXml.length() - 4).trim()); } } }