for (final Map.Entry<String, String> entry : fieldRuleMap.entrySet()) {
            final String path = entry.getValue();
            try {
                final XPathEvaluationResult<?> xObj = getXPathAPI().eval(document, path);
                switch (xObj.type()) {
                case BOOLEAN:
                    final Boolean b = (Boolean) xObj.value();

     * @return an array of strings extracted from the document
     */
    protected String[] getStringsByXPath(final Document document, final String path) {
        try {
            final XPathEvaluationResult<?> xObj = getXPathAPI().eval(document, path);
            switch (xObj.type()) {
            case BOOLEAN:
                final Boolean b = (Boolean) xObj.value();
                return new String[] { b.toString() };

            parser.parse(inputSource);
            final Document document = parser.getDocument();

            final StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder(255);
            final XPathNodes nodeList = getXPathAPI().selectNodeList(document, targetNodePath);
            for (int i = 0; i < nodeList.size(); i++) {
                final Node node = nodeList.get(i);
                buf.append(node.getTextContent()).append(' ');

        }
    }

    /**
     * Gets the XPath API instance for this thread.
     *
     * @return the XPath API instance
     */
    protected XPathAPI getXPathAPI() {
        XPathAPI cachedXPathAPI = xpathAPI.get();
        if (cachedXPathAPI == null) {
            cachedXPathAPI = new XPathAPI();
            xpathAPI.set(cachedXPathAPI);
        }

     * @throws XPathExpressionException if an XPath expression error occurs.
     */
    protected XPathNodes getNodeList(final Document doc, final String xpath) throws XPathExpressionException {
        final XPath xPathApi = getXPathAPI().createXPath(f -> {});
        xPathApi.setNamespaceContext(new DefaultNamespaceContext(doc.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE ? doc.getDocumentElement() : doc));

        for (final Map.Entry<String, String> entry : fieldRuleMap.entrySet()) {
            final String path = entry.getValue();
            try {
                final XPathEvaluationResult<?> xObj = getXPathAPI().eval(document, path);
                switch (xObj.type()) {
                case BOOLEAN:
                    final Boolean b = (Boolean) xObj.value();