Java tutorial
import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { XPathFactory xpf = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPath xp = xpf.newXPath(); InputSource xml = new InputSource("input.xml"); NodeList leafNodeObjects = (NodeList) xp.evaluate("//*[not(*)]", xml, XPathConstants.NODESET); for (int x = 0; x < leafNodeObjects.getLength(); x++) { System.out.print("nodeElement = "); System.out.print(leafNodeObjects.item(x).getNodeName()); System.out.print(" and node value = "); System.out.println(leafNodeObjects.item(x).getTextContent()); } } }