Java tutorial
import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.util.Iterator; import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { XPathFactory xpf = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPath xp = xpf.newXPath(); xp.setNamespaceContext(new MyNamespaceContext()); XPathExpression xpe = xp.compile("ns:feed/ns:entry"); FileInputStream xmlStream = new FileInputStream("input.xml"); InputSource xmlInput = new InputSource(xmlStream); Element result = (Element) xpe.evaluate(xmlInput, XPathConstants.NODE); System.out.println(result); } } class MyNamespaceContext implements NamespaceContext { public String getNamespaceURI(String prefix) { if ("ns".equals(prefix)) { return "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"; } return null; } public String getPrefix(String namespaceURI) { return null; } public Iterator getPrefixes(String namespaceURI) { return null; } }