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Java: how to locate an element via xpath string on org.w3c.dom.document

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.


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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, XPathConstants.NODESET);
for (int i = 0; i < nodes.getLength(); ++i) {
    Element e = (Element) nodes.item(i);
}

With the following page.html file:

<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
  <p>
    <div></div>
    <div></div>
    <div><a>link</a></div>
  </p>
  </body>
</html>

In my code example doc is of org.w3c.dom.Document type. If you already have an instance of Document, just use two last lines of my code and that's it! P.S.: Why the downvote?
this returns text. I need domelement or domelements.
See my edit (introduction of XPathConstants.NODESET parameter) - now it returns NodeList. Also have a look at other constants as well.
Thank you this is a great answer.
@Tomasz Nukiewicz , can you please look into my implementation. I know I am not the the questioner and itz a different question, but I took the reference from your answer, so I hope u can help me,stackoverflow.com/questions/26389376/…