Total newbie to XPath and Java here. What I'm attempting to do is something like this:
<A> <B> <C>test 1</C> </B> <B> <C/>test 2</C> </B> <B> <C/>test 3</C> </B> </A> for each XMLDoc.children() as BNode array.append(BNode.getXPathValueAt('B/C')); end for each Is there an easy way in Java to use XPaths like that to get deeply nested values in an XML document? I just need a quick and easy way to pull XPath values out of one XML document, and eventually stick them into a hashmap or object.
Example code. Cheers:
public class XPathExample { static final String XML = "<A>" + " <B><C>test 1</C></B>" + " <B><C>test 2</C></B>" + " <B><C>test 3</C></B>" + "</A>"; public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception { final XPathFactory xpathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance(); final XPath xpath = xpathFactory.newXPath(); final InputSource xml = new InputSource(new StringReader(XML)); final NodeList list = (NodeList) xpath.evaluate("A/B/C", xml, XPathConstants.NODESET); for (int i = 0; i < list.getLength(); i++) { final Node node = list.item(i); System.out.println(node.getTextContent()); } } } Have you seen The Java XPath API.
