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1. XPath to return nodes    stackoverflow.com

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XPATH problem with dom4j

<name color="blue" time="555555"> 
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2. How to get a list of String from Dom4j Node.selectObject or Node.selectNodes    stackoverflow.com

Hope you have a good day. The Dom4j javadoc form Node.selectObject(String xpathExpression) says the following: ...The object returned can either be a List of one or more Node instances or a scalar object ...

3. adding new node at specified place using dom4j in xml    stackoverflow.com

my code to insert new cred-pair at desried machine level.

Document insertNewNode(String loginId,String pass,String machine_name)
{
List<?> list1 = document.selectNodes("//machine/@name" );
Iterator<?> itr=list1.iterator();
while(itr.hasNext()){
Attribute attribute=(Attribute)itr.next();
if( attribute.getValue().equals(machine_name))
{
    List<?> list1 = document.selectNodes("//machine" );
   ...