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Having a Document creted from the below response string. I have tried:
XPathFactory xpathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
XPath xpath = xpathFactory.newXPath();
String authors = xpath.evaluate("//name)", doc);
I get no hits.
I have also tried:
Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
root.getElementsByTagName("name");
And I get no hits. Is there something to do with the namespaces? Can you point me in the right direction?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns:yt="http://www.youtube.com/xml/schemas/2015" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<link rel="self" href="http://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=someuser"/>
<id>yt:channel:UCUMC8pdifsdLRKjocJqQI9lLw</id>
<yt:channelId>UCUMC8pdifLRKsdjocJqQI9lLw</yt:channelId>
<title>SomeUser</title>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUMCasd8pdifLRKjocJqQI9lLw"/>
<author>
<name>SomeUser</name>
<uri>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUsdMC8pdifLRKjocJqQI9lLw</uri>
</author>
<published>2006-12-09T06:07:04+00:00</published>
<entry>
<id>yt:video:xePc_paasdT3sX30</id>
<yt:videoId>xePc_pT3asdsX30</yt:videoId>
<yt:channelId>ddsasd</yt:channelId>
<title>someuser - Call</title>
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeasPc_pT3sdX30"/>
<author>
<name>someuser</name>
<uri>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUMC8pdifLRKjocJqQI9lLw</uri>
</author>
<published>2018-09-27T15:52:42+00:00</published>
<updated>2018-09-27T15:57:01+00:00</updated>
<media:group>
<media:title>someuser Call</media:title>
<media:content url="https://www.youtube.com/v/xePc_paT3X30?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390"/>
<media:thumbnail url="https://i1.ytimg.com/vi/xePc_pT3X30/hqdefault.jpg" width="480" height="360"/>
<media:description>Nearly g call? ;)</media:description>
<media:community>
<media:starRating count="0" average="0.00" min="1" max="5"/>
<media:statistics views="46"/>
</media:community>
</media:group>
</entry>
</feed>
Answer
The <name> element is actually bound to the Atom namespace.
It’s easy to miss, since there is no namespace-prefix, but pay attention to the <feed> element, there is xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" which means that the <feed> element (and it’s descendants) will be bound to that namespace.
So, your XPath either needs to be adjusted to use a namespace-prefix and set a namespace context to configure the prefix and namespace-uri:
XPathFactory xpathFactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
XPath xpath = xpathFactory.newXPath();
HashMap<String, String> prefMap = new HashMap<>() {{
put("a", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom");
}};
SimpleNamespaceContext namespaces = new SimpleNamespaceContext(prefMap);
xpath.setNamespaceContext(namespaces);
String authors = xpath.evaluate("//a:name)", doc);
Or, you can make your XPath a bit more generic to match on any element with a predicate to evaluate it’s local-name() and namespace-uri():
String authors = xpath.evaluate("//*[local-name()='name' and
namespace-uri()='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'])", doc);