Java tutorial
import java.io.File; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; 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.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(new InputSource("data.xml")); XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath(); NodeList nodes = (NodeList) xpath.evaluate("//employee/name[text()='old']", doc, XPathConstants.NODESET); for (int idx = 0; idx < nodes.getLength(); idx++) { nodes.item(idx).setTextContent("new value"); } Transformer xformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer(); xformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(new File("data_new.xml"))); } }