Parsing XML with XPath in Java - Get data from XML file with Xpath and NodeList in Java

Question

I have this xml file and I want to get some values with Xpath.

The half of job is done but I get some trouble in the last part of file(States Node)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<favoris>
    <workflow codewf="wf1000">
        <information>
            <title>wf1</title>
            <desc>description 1</desc>
            <nberState>2</nberState>
            <text>text text text text text text text</text>
        </information>
        <states>
            <state id="1" IDemployee="2">description1</state>
            <state id="2" IDemployee="3">description2</state>
        </states>
    </workflow>

    <workflow codewf="wf2000">
        <information>
            <title>wf2</title>
            <desc>description 2</desc>
            <nberState>3</nberState>
            <text>text text text text text text text</text>
        </information>
        <states>
            <state id="1" IDemployee="3">description1</state>
            <state id="2" IDemployee="2">description2</state>
            <state id="3" IDemployee="4">description2</state>
        </states>
    </workflow>

</favoris>

And here the java code: package myxml;

import java.io.FileReader;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
public class xmlParty {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
    XPath xPath = factory.newXPath();
    NodeList favoris = (NodeList) xPath.evaluate("/favoris/workflow[@codewf='wf1000']", 
            new InputSource(new FileReader("a.xml")), 
            XPathConstants.NODESET);
    for (int i = 0; i < favoris.getLength(); i++) {
      Element workflow = (Element) favoris.item(i);
      String title = xPath.evaluate("information/title", workflow);
      String desc_w = xPath.evaluate("information/desc", workflow);
      String nberState = xPath.evaluate("information/nberState", workflow);
      String text = xPath.evaluate("information/text", workflow);
      System.out.println(workflow.getAttribute("codewf") +" "+title + " " + desc_w + " " + nberState + " " + text );

      NodeList States = (NodeList)xPath.evaluate("states/state", workflow, XPathConstants.NODESET);
      System.out.println(States.getLength());
      for (int k = 0; k < States.getLength(); k++) {
          String desc_state = xPath.evaluate("states/state", workflow);
          System.out.println(desc_state ); 
      }


   }
  }
}

and the output will be :

First example

wf1000 wf1 description 1 2 text text text text text text text
2
description1
description1

Second example

wf2000 wf2 description 2 3 text text text text text text text
3
description1
description1
description1

Looking at the state with ID 2, the text is description2 not description1 . I think the parser don't move to the second child and it always still at the firsst child. So how can I do and also how to do too to get the attribute of state????????

I got a briallint answer of this question on stackoverflow.com/a/21890347/3245218 — Sawan Kumar
– Sawan Kumar, Commented Feb 19, 2014 at 19:34

nabeelmukhtar · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-15 07:43:16Z

3

You will have to do something like:

for (int k = 0; k < States.getLength(); k++) {
          String desc_state = xPath.evaluate("states/state[position()=" + (k + 1) + "]", workflow);
          String id_employee = xPath.evaluate("states/state[position()=" + (k + 1) + "]/@IDemployee", workflow);
          System.out.println(desc_state + ":" + id_employee); 
}

answered Apr 15, 2011 at 7:43

nabeelmukhtar

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2 Comments

Ali Ben Messaoud Over a year ago

Thanks for fast reply and how to do for attributes??

Ashwin Over a year ago

@nabeelmukhtar : I am using xpath in java for xml signatures but the xpath transformation does not work. Please see this link - stackoverflow.com/questions/10698287/…

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