Java tutorial
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder(); Document xml = db.parse("input.xml"); XPathFactory xpf = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPath xpath = xpf.newXPath(); String health = (String) xpath.evaluate("/game/health", xml, XPathConstants.STRING); System.out.println(health); } }