Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Licensed to the Austrian Association for Software Tool Integration (AASTI) * under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright * ownership. The AASTI licenses this file to you under the Apache License, * Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import javax.xml.namespace.QName; 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; public class Main { public static NodeList executeXPath(Document dom, String xpath) throws XPathExpressionException { return (NodeList) executeXPath(dom, xpath, XPathConstants.NODESET); } public static Object executeXPath(Document dom, String xpath, QName returnType) throws XPathExpressionException { XPathExpression expr = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath().compile(xpath); return expr.evaluate(dom, returnType); } }