clarification regarding XML parsing

hi,
i have an XML file of the form:

<selection>
<data id="1">C:\My Documents\dat1.txt</data>
<data id="2">C:\My Documents\dat2.txt</data>
<data id="3">C:\My Documents\dat3.txt</data>
<data id="4">C:\My Documents\dat4.txt</data>
</selection>

if i parse this file using Xerces, what can be the output? the reason for posing this question is that in the above XML file, if i have just some data values like sam, ram, kim, john, peter, salim etc, by parsing we can obtain only the values we desire such as: sam and ram.
but in the above XML file, an entire file path is specified. so what can possibly be the output.
thanks in advance

I didn't think that Xerces generated output from your XML docuement. I though it just parsed your data so that something else, like Xalan and an XSL document could obtain the parsed information and then perhaps generate some output.