code: private NodeList getNodeListUsingJavaXPath(String xpath) throws Exception {
  		XPathFactory xpathFac = XPathFactory.newInstance();
  		XPath theXpath = xpathFac.newXPath();
  
  		String html = getGUIDriver().getHtmlSource();
  		html = html.replaceAll(">\\s+<", "><");
  		InputStream input = new ByteArrayInputStream(html.getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
  
  		XMLReader reader = new Parser();
  		reader.setFeature(Parser.namespacesFeature, false);
  		Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
  
  		DOMResult result = new DOMResult();
  		transformer.transform(new SAXSource(reader, new InputSource(input)), result);
  
  		Node htmlNode = result.getNode(); // This code gets a Node from the
  											// result.
  		NodeList nodes = (NodeList) theXpath.evaluate(xpath, htmlNode, XPathConstants.NODESET);
  
  		return nodes;
  	}
docs: Get the list of nodes which satisfy the xpath expression passed in
  
  @param xpath
  the input xpath expression
  @return the nodeset of matching elements
  @throws Exception