Java XML Element Get getElementsByXpath(Document docInput, String xPath)

Description

get Elements By Xpath

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static NodeList getElementsByXpath(Document docInput, String xPath) throws XPathExpressionException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpressionException;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    public static NodeList getElementsByXpath(Document docInput, String xPath) throws XPathExpressionException {
        XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
        XPath xpath = factory.newXPath();
        XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile(xPath);
        return ((NodeList) expr.evaluate(docInput, XPathConstants.NODESET));
    }
}

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