Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { private static DocumentBuilder dombuilder = null; private static XPath xpath = null; public static String getSingleValueFromString(String xmlStr, String xpathStr) throws XPathExpressionException, SAXException, IOException { InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlStr.getBytes("utf-8")); return getSingleValue(is, xpathStr); } /*** * * @param is * @param xpathStr * @return * if is is null , return null<br> * only the fist value will be returned * @throws SAXException * @throws IOException * @throws XPathExpressionException */ public static String getSingleValue(InputStream is, String xpathStr) throws SAXException, IOException, XPathExpressionException { String result = null; Document doc = null; if (is == null) return result; if (xpathStr == null || xpathStr.trim().length() == 0) return result; doc = dombuilder.parse(is); //"//db/@dbType" result = xpath.compile(xpathStr).evaluate(doc); return result; } }