We would like to know how to find the value of a specific attribute in an XML file in java.
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; //from w w w . j av a 2 s . c o m import org.w3c.dom.Document; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath(); Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance() .newDocumentBuilder().parse("file:////tmp/whatever.xml"); String version = xpath.evaluate("//behavior/@version", doc); System.out.println(version); } }