Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright 2015-2016 Artem Stasiuk Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.StringReader; public class Main { public static String findInXml(String xml, String xpath) { try { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); builder.setEntityResolver(new EntityResolver() { @Override public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId, String systemId) throws SAXException, IOException { // if (systemId.contains("foo.dtd")) { return new InputSource(new StringReader("")); // } else { // return null; // } } }); Document doc = builder.parse(new InputSource(new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes("utf-8")))); XPathFactory xPathfactory = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPathExpression expr = xPathfactory.newXPath().compile(xpath); return (String) expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.STRING); } catch (Throwable t) { throw new RuntimeException(t); } } }