Java tutorial
import java.io.IOException; import java.io.StringReader; 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.XPathExpression; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { XPathFactory xPathfactory = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPath xpath = xPathfactory.newXPath(); String xml1 = "<xml><product><product_id>2</product_id></product><car><product_id>12345678</product_id></car></xml>"; String xml2 = "<xml><product><product_id>2</product_id></product><car><car_type id_1=\"2\" id_2=\"32\">55555</car_type></car></xml>"; Document doc1 = stringToDom(xml1); Document doc2 = stringToDom(xml2); XPathExpression expr1 = xpath.compile("//car/product_id/text()"); String carId = (String) expr1.evaluate(doc1, XPathConstants.STRING); XPathExpression expr2 = xpath.compile("//car/car_type/text()"); String carType = (String) expr2.evaluate(doc2, XPathConstants.STRING); System.out.println("carId: " + carId); System.out.println("carType: " + carType); } public static Document stringToDom(String xmlSource) throws SAXException, ParserConfigurationException, IOException { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); return builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xmlSource))); } }