Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * Copyright (c) 2012 Basho Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This file is provided 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 java.util.*; import javax.xml.xpath.*; import org.w3c.dom.*; public class Main { public static List<Node> xpathToNodeList(String xpathQuery, Object domObject) throws XPathExpressionException { List<Node> result = new ArrayList<Node>(); XPathFactory xpathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPath xpath = xpathFactory.newXPath(); NodeList nodeList = (NodeList) xpath.evaluate(xpathQuery, domObject, XPathConstants.NODESET); for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) result.add(nodeList.item(i)); return result; } }