Java tutorial
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class MainClass { public static void main(String[] args) throws ParserConfigurationException, XPathExpressionException, org.xml.sax.SAXException, java.io.IOException { String documentName = args[0]; String expression = args[1]; DocumentBuilder parser = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = parser.parse(new java.io.File(documentName)); XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath(); System.out.println(xpath.evaluate(expression, doc)); NodeList nodes = (NodeList) xpath.evaluate(expression, doc, XPathConstants.NODESET); for (int i = 0, n = nodes.getLength(); i < n; i++) { Node node = nodes.item(i); System.out.println(node); } } }