Create an XML document and search by XPath

   

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    Document retval = dbf.newDocumentBuilder().newDocument();
    Element parent = retval.createElement("parent");
    retval.appendChild(parent);

    Element child1 = retval.createElement("child");
    child1.setTextContent("child.text");
    parent.appendChild(child1);
    Element child2 = retval.createElement("child");
    child2.setTextContent("child.text.2");
    parent.appendChild(child2);

    XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
    XPath xPath = factory.newXPath();
    System.out.println(xPath.evaluate("//child/text()", retval, XPathConstants.NODE).getClass());

  }

}