java dom xpath,Java：如何通过org.w3c.dom.document上的xpath字符串定位元素

How do you quickly locate element/elements via xpath string on a given org.w3c.dom.document? there seems to be no FindElementsByXpath() method. For example

/html/body/p/div[3]/a

I found that recursively iterating through all the child node levels to be quite slow when there are lot of elements of same name. Any suggestions?

I cannot use any parser or library, must work with w3c dom document only.

解决方案

Try this:

//obtain Document somehow, doesn't matter how

DocumentBuilder b = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();

org.w3c.dom.Document doc = b.parse(new FileInputStream("page.html"));

//Evaluate XPath against Document itself

XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();

NodeList nodes = (NodeList)xPath.evaluate("/html/body/p/div[3]/a",

doc.getDocumentElement(), XPathConstants.NODESET);

for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); ++i) {

Element e = (Element) nodes.item(i);

}

With the following page.html file:

link