Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* chatter-bot-api Copyright (C) 2011 pierredavidbelanger@gmail.com This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser 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 Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import org.w3c.dom.Document; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; public class Main { public static String xPathSearch(String input, String expression) throws Exception { DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder(); XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath(); XPathExpression xPathExpression = xPath.compile(expression); Document document = documentBuilder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(input.getBytes("UTF-8"))); String output = (String) xPathExpression.evaluate(document, XPathConstants.STRING); return output == null ? "" : output.trim(); } }