Java tutorial
import java.io.File; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File("Test.xml")); XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath(); XPathExpression exp = xPath.compile("//data"); NodeList nl = (NodeList) exp.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET); System.out.println("Found " + nl.getLength() + " results"); } }