Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; public class Main { private static DocumentBuilder dombuilder = null; private static XPath xpath = null; public static Node[] getMultiNodeFromFile(String fileName, String xpathStr) throws SAXException, IOException, XPathExpressionException { InputStream is = new FileInputStream(new File(fileName)); return getMultiNode(is, xpathStr); } public static Node[] getMultiNode(InputStream is, String xpathStr) throws SAXException, IOException, XPathExpressionException { Node[] result = null; Document doc = null; if (is == null) return result; doc = dombuilder.parse(is); Object obj = xpath.compile(xpathStr).evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET); if (obj != null) { NodeList nodes = (NodeList) obj; result = new Node[nodes.getLength()]; for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) result[i] = nodes.item(i); } return result; } }