Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { private static DocumentBuilder dombuilder = null; private static XPath xpath = null; public static boolean nodeExist(InputStream is, String xpathStr) throws SAXException, IOException, XPathExpressionException { boolean result = false; Document doc = null; if (is == null) return result; doc = dombuilder.parse(is); Object obj = xpath.compile(xpathStr).evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET); if (obj != null) { NodeList nodes = (NodeList) obj; if (nodes.getLength() > 0) { result = true; } } return result; } public static boolean nodeExist(String xmlStr, String xpathStr) throws SAXException, IOException, XPathExpressionException { InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlStr.getBytes("utf-8")); return nodeExist(is, xpathStr); } }