Java tutorial
import java.io.File; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); Document document = dbf.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File("input.xml")); XPathFactory xpf = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPath xpath = xpf.newXPath(); XPathExpression expression = xpath.compile("//data/user/username[text()='simple']"); Node b13Node = (Node) expression.evaluate(document, XPathConstants.NODE); b13Node = b13Node.getParentNode(); b13Node.getParentNode().removeChild(b13Node); TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer t = tf.newTransformer(); t.transform(new DOMSource(document), new StreamResult(System.out)); } }