Element name = (Element) car.selectSingleNode("./car/name");
you have a car element, and the xpath says "select the name element, of each car child element within the given car". Which would match the name element in the following document:
<cars>
<car>
<car>
<name>name</name>
</car>
</car>
</cars>so what you want is just to select the name element beneath the current car:
Element name = (Element)car.selectSingleNode("name");
By the way, the speedier way of getting the name text would be:
String name = car.elementText("name");
or to get the element:
Element name = car.element("name");
This way, you needn't parse and execute a whole XPath, just iterate through the internal List.
christian.
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