import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.xpath.XPath; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathExpression; import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); factory.setNamespaceAware(false); // never forget this! DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = builder.parse("/data.xml"); XPathFactory xPathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance(); XPath xpath = xPathFactory.newXPath(); XPathExpression xPathExpression = xpath.compile("http://city/text()"); Object result = xPathExpression.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET); System.out.println(result.toString()); NodeList nodes = (NodeList) result; System.out.println(nodes.getLength()); for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); i++) { System.out.println(nodes.item(i).getNodeValue()); } } }