Java Utililty Methods XPath Get

List of utility methods to do XPath Get

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Description

The list of methods to do XPath Get are organized into topic(s).

Method

StringgetString(final String xPath, final Object item)
Evaluates the xpath on an object 
return (String) evaluateXPath(xPath, item, XPathConstants.STRING);
StringgetString(Node node, XPathExpression expr)
Get a string from an XPath expression. 
return (String) expr.evaluate(node, XPathConstants.STRING);
StringgetStringByXPath(String xml, String xpathStr)
Get a string by XPATH from a xml file 
Document doc = parseXML(xml);
if (doc == null)
    return null;
try {
    XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
    XPath xpath = factory.newXPath();
    XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile(xpathStr);
    return (String) expr.evaluate(doc);
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StringgetStringValue(Node node, XPathExpression expression)
Evaluates the XPath expression in the specified context and returns the found element as a String. 
try {
    return (String) expression.evaluate(node, XPathConstants.STRING);
} catch (XPathExpressionException e) {
    return null;
StringgetStringValue(Object doc, XPathExpression path)
get String Value 
return path.evaluate(doc);
StringgetStringValue(String targetDoc, String xpathExp, String encoding)
get String Value 
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = builder.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(targetDoc.getBytes(encoding)));
XPathFactory pathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
XPath xpath = pathFactory.newXPath();
XPathExpression pathExpression = xpath.compile(xpathExp);
String result = (String) pathExpression.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.STRING);
if (result != null) {
    result = result.trim();
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StringgetStringValueByXPath(Node node, String xPath)
get String Value By X Path 
return path.evaluate(xPath, node);
StringgetText(String xPathExpression, Node node)
get Text 
XPath xpath = xPathFactory.newXPath();
return xpath.evaluate(xPathExpression, node);
String[]getTextNodes(Node contextNode, String xPath)
get Text Nodes 
return getTextNodes(contextNode, xPath, contextNode);
StringgetValidXpath(String xPath, NamespaceContext context)
get Valid Xpath 
if (context == null)
    return xPath;
String namespaceURI = context.getNamespaceURI(DEFAULT_NS);
if (namespaceURI != null && !namespaceURI.isEmpty()) {
    StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
    String[] tags = xPath.split("/");
    int length = tags.length;
    for (int i = 0; i < length - 1; i++) {
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