java - Extract Maven Dependency Version from POM -

given have dependency groupid , artifactid, how extract version dependency pom.xml file?

example: want able extract dependency version below if query using artifactid , groupid.

        <dependency>             <groupid>commons-pool</groupid>             <artifactid>commons-pool</artifactid>             <version>1.6</version>         </dependency> 

i want assign version global environment variable i.e. dep_version=1.6

it xml. trivially make parsing of file.