Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext; import javax.xml.namespace.QName; import javax.xml.xpath.*; import java.util.*; public class Main { public static Object evalXPath(String xpath, InputSource source, QName type) throws XPathExpressionException { return newXPath(xpath).evaluate(source, type); } public static Object evalXPath(String xpath, Node source, QName type) throws XPathExpressionException { return newXPath(xpath).evaluate(source, type); } public static XPathExpression newXPath(String xpath) throws XPathExpressionException { return newXPathFactory().newXPath().compile(xpath); } public static XPathExpression newXPath(String xpath, final Map<String, String> namespaces) throws XPathExpressionException { final XPath xp = newXPathFactory().newXPath(); xp.setNamespaceContext(new NamespaceContext() { @Override public String getNamespaceURI(String prefix) { return namespaces != null ? namespaces.get(prefix) : null; } @Override public String getPrefix(String namespaceURI) { if (namespaces == null) { return null; } else { final Iterator i = getPrefixes(namespaceURI); if (i.hasNext()) { return (String) i.next(); } else { return null; } } } @Override public Iterator getPrefixes(String namespaceURI) { if (namespaces == null) { return null; } else { ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(); for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : namespaces.entrySet()) { if (entry.getValue().equals(namespaceURI)) { list.add(entry.getKey()); } } return list.iterator(); } } }); return xp.compile(xpath); } public static XPathFactory newXPathFactory() { return XPathFactory.newInstance(); } }