Java tutorial
import java.io.StringReader; import javax.xml.transform.Transformer; import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String xml = "<company><year id='2000'><quarter id='1' sales='80'/></year><year id='2001'><quarter id='1' sales='20'/></year></company>"; String xpath = "/company/year[@id=2001]"; XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath(); Node node = (Node) xPath.evaluate(xpath, new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)), XPathConstants.NODE); TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer t = tf.newTransformer(); t.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(System.out)); } }