/***** Code de MesExemples.com *******/
/**
 * @(#)XMLNodeChanging.java
 *
 *
 * @author 
 *sakoba(java.mesexemples.com) @version 1.00 2013/7/4
 */
import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathConstants;
import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
public class XMLNodeChanging
 {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Document doc = 
    DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(
        new InputSource("test.xml"));
    XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
    // Trouver le texte "Tove" et le modifier
    NodeList nodes = (NodeList) xpath.evaluate("//note/to[text()='Tove']", doc,
        XPathConstants.NODESET);
    for (int idx = 0; idx < nodes.getLength(); idx++) {
    	// Nouvelle valeur
      nodes.item(idx).setTextContent("new value");
    }
    Transformer xformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
    xformer.transform(new DOMSource(doc), new StreamResult(new 
    File("data_new.xml")));
  }
}
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