Java tutorial
import java.io.StringReader; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { String simpleXML = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><person><name>Bob</name></person>"; InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(new StringReader(simpleXML)); XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath(); try { String name = xpath.evaluate("//name", inputSource); System.out.println(name); } catch (XPathExpressionException e) { System.out.println(e.getMessage()); } } }