Java XPath Select selectNodeList(Node contextNode, String expression)

Description

select Node List

License

LGPL

Declaration

public static NodeList selectNodeList(Node contextNode, String expression) throws XPathExpressionException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
//License from project: LGPL 

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.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class Main {
    private static XPathFactory xpathFactory;

    public static NodeList selectNodeList(Node contextNode, String expression) throws XPathExpressionException {
        XPath xpath = getXPathFactory().newXPath();
        XPathExpression xexpr = xpath.compile(expression);
        return (NodeList) xexpr.evaluate(contextNode, XPathConstants.NODESET);
    }//from w ww .j  a va  2 s .c  o m

    public static XPathFactory getXPathFactory() {
        if (xpathFactory == null) {
            xpathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
        }
        return xpathFactory;
    }
}

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2. getValueFromXPath(Document document, String xpathString)
3. getXmlElements(Document inXml, String xpath)
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5. selectNodeIterator(Node nContextNode, String sXPath)
6. selectNodeList(Node node, String expression)
7. selectNodes(final Node node, final String xPath)
8. selectNodes(Node nodeParent, String name)
9. selectNodes(String express, Object source)