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The file bbc.xml is as shown:
<world>
  <region id='Europe'>
   <country id='de' name='Germany' pop='82000000'/>
   <country id='fr' name='France'  pop='60000000'/>
  </region>
  <region id='Asia'>
    <country id='cn' name='China' pop='1300000000'/>
  </region>
</world>

The XPath expression //country[@id='fr']/@pop find the country node that has attribute id set to 'fr', it returns the value of the pop attribute.

The value returned should be 60 million.

1. [ Java ] Load a DOM document and apply an XPath expression


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You load the XML file via the DocumentBuilderFactory, DocumentBuilder and parser. The xPath object can be used on this to evaluate the XPath expression.