using xpath in Java

Question

I'm beginner in xpath for java. I want to get all the nodes that contain specific text, so I tried:

keyword = "employee//[contains(text()," + inputText + ")]";

NodeList nodes = (NodeList) xpath.evaluate(keyword, doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);

after that the result is all the employee elements even they do not have the certain text in it!

Please, help me how I can get only the employee elements that have the text?

Thank you,

What is your input, and what is the output you currently get from the input with above code? — Nándor Előd Fekete, Feb 18 '18 at 17:20
Your XPath is malformed, or your typed it in your question wrong. You've not included the XML being queried. Your question could have been closed for lacking a [mcve], but it's likely that the underlying issue will be addressed by the answer in the duplicate link. If not, improve this question and request that it be reopened. Thanks. — kjhughes, Feb 18 '18 at 18:33

TheSupermax03 · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-18T18:17:53.960

Hello I tried looking for all employees whose name was Guido. The code is the following. It works for me.

    String name="Guido";
    FileInputStream fileIS = new FileInputStream("C:/Users/Maxi/workspace/ProyectoIteraciones/src/com/proyecto/init/Employees.xml");
    DocumentBuilderFactory builderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder builder = builderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document xmlDocument = builder.parse(fileIS);
    XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();        
    String expression = "//Employee/Name[contains(.,'"+name+"')]";      
    NodeList nodeList = (NodeList) xPath.compile(expression).evaluate(xmlDocument, XPathConstants.NODESET);
    System.out.println("El resultado es "+nodeList.item(0).getTextContent());

using xpath in Java

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