Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.StringWriter; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys; 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.XPathExpression; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.apache.log4j.Logger; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(new Exception().getStackTrace()[0].getClassName()); public static String setValueXPath(String srcXmlString, String xPath, String newVal) { DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); domFactory.setNamespaceAware(false); // never forget this! int i, j; Document doc = null; DocumentBuilder builder = null; try { builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); doc = builder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(srcXmlString.getBytes())); XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPath xpath = factory.newXPath(); XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile(xPath); Object result = expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET); NodeList xPathNodes = (NodeList) result; logger.debug("xpath result count: " + xPathNodes.getLength()); logger.debug(xPathNodes.item(0).getNodeName() + " = " + xPathNodes.item(0).getTextContent()); // get list of all nodes in doc NodeList nodes = doc.getElementsByTagName("*"); // iterate through all the nodes for (i = 0; i < xPathNodes.getLength(); i++) { // for each node in xpath result - traverse through all nodes in // doc to find match for (j = 0; j < nodes.getLength(); j++) { if (nodes.item(j).isSameNode(xPathNodes.item(i))) { logger.debug("Old value " + i + ": " + xPathNodes.item(i).getNodeName() + " = " + xPathNodes.item(i).getTextContent()); nodes.item(j).setTextContent(newVal); logger.debug("New value " + i + ": " + xPathNodes.item(i).getNodeName() + " = " + xPathNodes.item(i).getTextContent()); break; } } } } catch (Exception ex) { logger.error(ex.getMessage()); // ex.printStackTrace(); } return getW3CXmlFromDoc(doc); } private static String getW3CXmlFromDoc(Document doc) { String xmlString = null; Transformer transformer; try { transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(); // transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes"); // yes, // no transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "no"); // initialize StreamResult with File object to save to file StreamResult xmlStream = new StreamResult(new StringWriter()); DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc); transformer.transform(source, xmlStream); xmlString = xmlStream.getWriter().toString(); } catch (Exception ex) { logger.error(ex.getMessage()); } return xmlString; } }