DocumentBuilder

public class test{

  /**

  * parse test.xml
  * @return  TextContent of a node.

  */ 

  public String getTextContent() throws Exception {
    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
    String sPath = this.getClass().getResource("/")

             .getPath() + File.separator + "test.xml";
    Document document = builder.parse(sPath);

    NodeList nodeList = document.getElementsByTagName("test");
    Node node = nodeList.item(0);
    return node.getTextContent();
  }

}

jsp 

<% 

DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbf.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = db.parse(pageContext.getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/xml/test.xml"));
doc.normalize();
NodeList Xs = doc.getElementsByTagName("X");
String x = Xs.item(0).getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
x = new String(x.getBytes("gb2312"));
out.println(x);
%>