org.springframework.integration.xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/config/IntegrationXmlNamespaceHandler.java

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ public class IntegrationXmlNamespaceHandler extends NamespaceHandlerSupport {
 		registerBeanDefinitionParser("xpath-router", new XPathRouterParser());
 		registerBeanDefinitionParser("xpath-selector", new XPathSelectorParser());
 		registerBeanDefinitionParser("xpath-expression", new XPathExpressionParser());
+		registerBeanDefinitionParser("xpath-splitter", new XPathMessageSplitterParser());
 	}
 
 }

org.springframework.integration.xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/config/XPathMessageSplitterParser.java

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2008 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.integration.xml.config;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionBuilder;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.AbstractSingleBeanDefinitionParser;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.ParserContext;
+import org.springframework.integration.xml.splitter.XPathMessageSplitter;
+import org.springframework.util.Assert;
+import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
+
+/**
+ * @author Jonas Partner
+ */
+public class XPathMessageSplitterParser extends AbstractSingleBeanDefinitionParser {
+
+	@Override
+	protected Class getBeanClass(Element element) {
+		return XPathMessageSplitter.class;
+	}
+
+	private XPathExpressionParser xpathParser = new XPathExpressionParser();
+	
+	@Override
+	protected boolean shouldGenerateId() {
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected boolean shouldGenerateIdAsFallback() {
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected void doParse(Element element, ParserContext parserContext, BeanDefinitionBuilder builder) {
+
+		boolean multiChannel = Boolean.parseBoolean(element.getAttribute("multi-channel"));
+		String xPathExpressionRef = element.getAttribute("xpath-expression-ref");
+
+		NodeList xPathExpressionNodes = element.getElementsByTagNameNS(element.getNamespaceURI(), "xpath-expression");
+		Assert.isTrue(xPathExpressionNodes.getLength() < 2, "Only one xpath-expression child can be specified");
+		boolean xPathExpressionChildPresent = xPathExpressionNodes.getLength() == 1;
+		boolean xPathReferencePresent = StringUtils.hasText(xPathExpressionRef);
+
+		boolean exactlyOneSpecified = !(xPathExpressionChildPresent && xPathReferencePresent) && (!xPathExpressionChildPresent ^ !xPathReferencePresent);
+		
+		Assert.isTrue( exactlyOneSpecified,"Exactly one of 'xpath-expression' or 'xpath-expression-ref' is required.");
+
+		if (xPathExpressionChildPresent) {
+			BeanDefinition beanDefinition = xpathParser.parse((Element) xPathExpressionNodes.item(0), parserContext);
+			builder.addConstructorArgValue(beanDefinition);
+		} else { 
+			builder.addConstructorArgReference(xPathExpressionRef);
+		}
+	}
+
+	
+
+}

org.springframework.integration.xml/src/main/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/config/spring-integration-xml-1.0.xsd

@@ -140,6 +140,26 @@
 		</xsd:complexType>
 	</xsd:element>
 
+	<xsd:element name="xpath-splitter">
+		<xsd:complexType>
+			<xsd:annotation>
+				<xsd:documentation>
+					Defines an XPath splitter.
+				</xsd:documentation>
+			</xsd:annotation>
+			<xsd:sequence>
+				<xsd:element ref="xpath-expression" maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" />
+			</xsd:sequence>
+			<xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:string" use="required" />
+				<xsd:attribute name="xpath-expression-ref" type="xsd:string"
+					use="optional" />
+				<xsd:attribute name="doc-builder-factory" type="xsd:string"
+					use="optional" />
+				<xsd:attribute name="create-documents" type="xsd:boolean"
+					use="optional" />
+		</xsd:complexType>
+	</xsd:element>
+	
 	<xsd:complexType name="transformerType">
 		<xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:string" use="optional" />
 		<xsd:attribute name="input-channel" type="xsd:string" use="required" />

org.springframework.integration.xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/config/XPathMessageSplitterParserTests.java

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2008 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.integration.xml.config;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.integration.channel.QueueChannel;
+import org.springframework.integration.message.GenericMessage;
+import org.springframework.integration.xml.splitter.XPathMessageSplitter;
+import org.springframework.integration.xml.util.XmlTestUtil;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.w3c.dom.Document;
+
+/**
+ * @author Jonas Partner
+ */
+@ContextConfiguration
+public class XPathMessageSplitterParserTests {
+
+
+	@Test
+	public void testSimpleStringExpression() throws Exception {
+		Document doc = XmlTestUtil.getDocumentForString("<names><name>Bob</name><name>John</name></names>");
+		GenericMessage<Document> docMessage = new GenericMessage<Document>(doc);
+
+		TestXmlApplicationContext ctx = TestXmlApplicationContextHelper.getTestAppContext("<si-xml:xpath-splitter id='splitter'><si-xml:xpath-expression expression='//name'/></si-xml:xpath-splitter>");
+		XPathMessageSplitter splitter = (XPathMessageSplitter) ctx.getBean("splitter");
+		
+		QueueChannel queueChannel = new QueueChannel(10);
+		splitter.setOutputChannel(queueChannel);
+		splitter.onMessage(docMessage);
+		assertEquals("Wrong number of split messages ", 2, queueChannel.getMesssageCount());
+	
+	}
+
+}