Java tutorial
import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath(); String xpathExpression = "/howto/topic/@name"; InputSource inputSource = new InputSource("howto.xml"); NodeList nodes = (NodeList) xpath.evaluate(xpathExpression, inputSource, XPathConstants.NODESET); int j = nodes.getLength(); for (int i = 0; i < j; i++) { System.out.println(nodes.item(i).getTextContent()); } } }