diff --git a/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/xpath/XPathTests-context.xml b/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/xpath/XPathTests-context.xml
index 489cbfec981..cd246ea22b6 100644
--- a/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/xpath/XPathTests-context.xml
+++ b/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/xpath/XPathTests-context.xml
@@ -36,4 +36,9 @@
 
 	<bean id="testNodeMapper" class="org.springframework.integration.xml.xpath.XPathTests$TestNodeMapper"/>
 
+	<int:recipient-list-router input-channel="xpathRecipientsInput">
+		<int:recipient channel="channelA" selector-expression="#xpath(payload, '/passenger/age/text() &lt;= 2', 'boolean')"/>
+		<int:recipient channel="channelB" selector-expression="#xpath(payload, '/passenger/age/text() > 12', 'boolean')"/>
+	</int:recipient-list-router>
+
 </beans>
diff --git a/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/xpath/XPathTests.java b/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/xpath/XPathTests.java
index 3382ed41a7d..9e46b76a7a5 100644
--- a/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/xpath/XPathTests.java
+++ b/spring-integration-xml/src/test/java/org/springframework/integration/xml/xpath/XPathTests.java
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ public class XPathTests {
 	@Autowired
 	private MessageChannel xpathRouterInput;
 
+	@Autowired
+	private MessageChannel xpathRecipientsInput;
+
 	@Test
 	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
 	public void testXPathUtils() {
@@ -205,6 +208,22 @@ public void testInt3140Router() {
 		assertThat(receive.getPayload()).isEqualTo("<name>X</name>");
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void recipientListRouteByXpath() {
+		this.xpathRecipientsInput.send(new GenericMessage<>("<passenger><age>2</age></passenger>"));
+		this.xpathRecipientsInput.send(new GenericMessage<>("<passenger><age>16</age></passenger>"));
+
+		Message<?> receive = this.channelA.receive(1000);
+		assertThat(receive)
+				.extracting(Message::getPayload)
+				.isEqualTo("<passenger><age>2</age></passenger>");
+
+		receive = this.channelB.receive(1000);
+		assertThat(receive)
+				.extracting(Message::getPayload)
+				.isEqualTo("<passenger><age>16</age></passenger>");
+	}
+
 	public static class TestNodeMapper implements NodeMapper<String> {
 
 		@Override
diff --git a/src/reference/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/xml/xpath-routing.adoc b/src/reference/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/xml/xpath-routing.adoc
index 42c7f4f2a60..4eb6e26f8a0 100644
--- a/src/reference/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/xml/xpath-routing.adoc
+++ b/src/reference/antora/modules/ROOT/pages/xml/xpath-routing.adoc
@@ -89,7 +89,16 @@ For example, if we want to route based on the name of the root node, we can use
         evaluate-as-string="true">
     <int-xml:xpath-expression expression="name(./node())"/>
 </int-xml:xpath-router>
+----
+
+The out-of-the-box `#xpath()` xref:spel.adoc#built-in-spel-functions[SpEL function] is also powerful enough to use with a generic router definition, including recipient list router:
 
+[source,xml]
+----
+<int:recipient-list-router input-channel="xpathRecipientsInput">
+    <int:recipient channel="channelA" selector-expression="#xpath(payload, '/passenger/age/text() &lt;= 2', 'boolean')"/>
+    <int:recipient channel="channelB" selector-expression="#xpath(payload, '/passenger/age/text() > 12', 'boolean')"/>
+</int:recipient-list-router>
 ----
 
 [[xpath-routing-converter]]