Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import org.w3c.dom.*; import javax.xml.parsers.*; import javax.xml.xpath.*; public class Main { public static String[] xpathOnString(String q, String stringdoc) { try { DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); // domFactory.setNamespaceAware(true); DocumentBuilder builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = builder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(stringdoc.getBytes())); XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPath xpath = factory.newXPath(); XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile(q); Object result = expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET); NodeList nodes = (NodeList) result; String res[] = new String[nodes.getLength()]; for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) { // System.out.println(nodes.item(i).toString()); res[i] = nodes.item(i).getNodeValue(); } return res; } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("XPathUtils.xpathOnString:caught:" + e); return null; } } }