Java tutorial
import java.io.StringReader; import java.util.Iterator; import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; 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; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String xml = "<soapenv:Envelope " + "xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" " + "xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" " + "xmlns:soapenv=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" " + "xmlns:ser=\"http://services.web.post.list.com\"><soapenv:Header>" + "<authInfo xsi:type=\"soap:authentication\" " + "xmlns:soap=\"http://list.com/services/SoapRequestProcessor\">" + "<username xsi:type=\"xsd:string\">asdf@g.com</username>" + "<password xsi:type=\"xsd:string\">asdf</password></authInfo></soapenv:Header></soapenv:Envelope>"; System.out.println(xml); DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); domFactory.setNamespaceAware(true); DocumentBuilder builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml))); XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath(); xpath.setNamespaceContext(new NamespaceContext() { @Override public Iterator getPrefixes(String arg0) { return null; } @Override public String getPrefix(String arg0) { return null; } @Override public String getNamespaceURI(String arg0) { if ("soapenv".equals(arg0)) { return "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; } return null; } }); XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("/soapenv:Envelope/soapenv:Header/authInfo/password"); Object result = expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET); NodeList nodes = (NodeList) result; System.out.println("Got " + nodes.getLength() + " nodes"); } }