Return a list of elements based on xPath - Java XML

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Description

Return a list of elements based on xPath

Demo Code


//package com.java2s;

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 {
    /**/*from   w w  w . ja v a2 s  . c  om*/
     * Return a list of elements based on xPath
     */
    static NodeList getElementsByAttribute(Document doc, String xPath) {
        XPathFactory xPathfactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
        XPath xpath = xPathfactory.newXPath();
        XPathExpression expr = null;
        NodeList nl = null;
        try {
            expr = xpath.compile(xPath);
            nl = (NodeList) expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
        } catch (XPathExpressionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return nl;
    }
}

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