Generate/get xpath from XML node java

Question

I\'m interested in advice/pseudocode code/explanation rather than actual implementation.

• I\'d like to go trough xml document

Answer 1

With jOOX (a jquery API port to Java, disclaimer - I work for the company behind the library), you can almost achieve what you want in a single statement:

// I'm assuming this:
import static org.joox.JOOX.$;

// And then...
List coolList = $(document).xpath("//*[not(*)]").map(
    context -> $(context).xpath() + "='" + $(context).text() + "'"
);

If document is your sample document:

    one
    two
    three
    four
    
        five
    

This will produce

/root[1]/elemA[1]='one'
/root[1]/elemA[2]='two'
/root[1]/elemB[1]='three'
/root[1]/elemA[3]='four'
/root[1]/elemC[1]/elemB[1]='five'

By "almost", I mean that jOOX does not (yet) support matching/mapping attributes. Hence, your attributes will not produce any output. This will be implemented in the near future, though.