java code to get all leaf nodes of a xml
try { final Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse("input.xml"); final XPathExpression xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath().compile("//*[count(./*) = 0]"); final NodeList nodeList = (NodeList) xpath.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.NODESET); for(int i = 0; i < nodeList.getLength(); i++) { final Element el = (Element) nodeList.item(i); System.out.println(el.getNodeName()); } } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
