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Getting parent node content in xml file by java
<main>**Name**
      <names>**Harish**</names>
      <names2>**Mathi**</names>
   </main>

main/text()

DocumentBuilderFactory domFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    domFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
    DocumentBuilder builder = domFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document doc = builder.parse("sample.xml");
    XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();

    XPathExpression expr = xpath.compile("main/text()");

    Object result = expr.evaluate(doc, XPathConstants.STRING);
    System.out.println(result.toString());