Java tutorial
import java.io.StringReader; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><users><user id='0' firstname='John'/></users>"; DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); Document document = db.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml))); XPathFactory xpf = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPath xpath = xpf.newXPath(); Element userElement = (Element) xpath.evaluate("/users/user", document, XPathConstants.NODE); System.out.println(userElement.getAttribute("id")); System.out.println(userElement.getAttribute("firstname")); } }