Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Map; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { public static Map<String, String> readXmlToMap(String filename, String xpathExp, String arrtibute) throws ParserConfigurationException, IOException, SAXException, XPathExpressionException { //to-do something Map<String, String> dataMap = new HashMap<String, String>(); DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); dbf.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true); DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); File file = new File(filename); if (file.exists()) { Document doc = db.parse(file); XPathFactory xpathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPath xpath = xpathFactory.newXPath(); NodeList varList = (NodeList) xpath.evaluate(xpathExp, doc, XPathConstants.NODESET); for (int i = 0; i < varList.getLength(); i++) { dataMap.put(varList.item(i).getAttributes().getNamedItem(arrtibute).getNodeValue(), varList.item(i).getTextContent()); } } return dataMap; } }