2.2.11 javax.xml.xpath Package

The javax.xml.xpath package provides APIs for evaluating XPath expressions.

The following figure shows the flow of processing for applications that evaluate XPath expressions.

Figure 2‒5: Flow of processing for applications that evaluate XPath expressions

It is also possible to evaluate XPath expressions by using an InputSource object as an input.

For details on the javax.xml.xpath package, see Javadoc in the JSR 206 Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.4.