Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.IOException; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { /** * Read application-context file, and return fully qualified class name for * given <code>beanName</code> * * @param beanName * @return * */ public static String getFullyQualifiedClass(String beanName) { DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); docBuilderFactory.setNamespaceAware(true); String nodeValue = ""; try { DocumentBuilder builder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = builder.parse("application-context.xml"); XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPath xpath = factory.newXPath(); XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("//bean[@name='" + beanName + "']/@class"); Object result = expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET); NodeList nodes = (NodeList) result; if (nodes.getLength() > 0) { nodeValue = nodes.item(0).getNodeValue(); } } catch (ParserConfigurationException parserConfigurationException) { parserConfigurationException.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException ioException) { ioException.printStackTrace(); } catch (SAXException saxException) { saxException.printStackTrace(); } catch (XPathExpressionException xPathExpressionException) { xPathExpressionException.printStackTrace(); } return nodeValue; } }