Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* JJSP - Java and Javascript Server Pages Copyright (C) 2016 Global Travel Ventures Ltd This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. */ import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; public class Main { private static XPathFactory xPathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance(); public static NodeList getNodes(String expression, Node root) { XPath xpath = xPathFactory.newXPath(); try { NodeList list = (NodeList) xpath.evaluate(expression, root, XPathConstants.NODESET); return list; } catch (XPathExpressionException xpe) { throw new IllegalStateException(xpe); } } public static NodeList getNodes(String expression, Document document) { XPath xpath = xPathFactory.newXPath(); try { NodeList list = (NodeList) xpath.evaluate(expression, document, XPathConstants.NODESET); return list; } catch (XPathExpressionException xpe) { throw new IllegalStateException(xpe); } } }