Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* JJSP - Java and Javascript Server Pages Copyright (C) 2016 Global Travel Ventures Ltd This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. */ import org.w3c.dom.Document; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; public class Main { private static XPathFactory xPathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance(); public static Double getNodesCount(String expression, Document document) { XPath xpath = xPathFactory.newXPath(); try { Double count = (Double) xpath.evaluate("count(" + expression + ")", document, XPathConstants.NUMBER); return count; } catch (XPathExpressionException xpe) { throw new IllegalStateException(xpe); } } }