XPath - how to get a list of multiple tags with the same name

Question

    
        Nike
        13
        White

        

Answer 1

With //shoes/additional you would get a list of all the nodes and could iterate over it in Java.

Answer 2

Here's an example that uses XPath from the JDK to execute a query. It assumes that the variable xml contains your XML document.

XPathFactory factory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
XPath xPath = factory.newXPath();
NodeList nodeList = (NodeList) xPath.evaluate("//shoes/additional", new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)), XPathConstants.NODESET);
for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); ++i) {
    String name = nodeList.item(i).getAttributes().getNamedItem("name").getNodeValue();
    String text = nodeList.item(i).getTextContent();
    System.out.println(name + ", " + text);
}