NullPointerException using DOMParser and selectSingleNode

String url = "http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Starts-Great-Expectations/dp/1402766459/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294405505&sr=1-1";

DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();
parser.parse(url);

Document document = parser.getDocument();
DOMReader reader = new DOMReader();
org.dom4j.Document nhddoc = reader.read(document);

//book price
Node price = nhddoc.selectSingleNode("/HTML/BODY/DIV[2]/FORM/TABLE[3]/TBODY/TR/TD/DIV/TABLE/TBODY/TR/TD[2]/B");
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the error i get is :

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at nekodom4j.Main.main(Main.java:44)

does the null pointer exception means no node was selected ?

I have no particular idea what the cause of the problem might be, but the first thing I would do to debug it would be to walk the path one level at a time and see where it fails to return what you expect.

Node html = nhddoc.selectSingleNode("/HTML");
/* maybe print out some information about the Node just acquired */
Node body = html.selectSingleNode("/BODY");

etc...