handling repeating xml elements in mule

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <root xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">                                                                   
   <input>
    <rows>
     <example>
        <string>1</string>
        <string>345</string>
        <string>fg8</string>
        <string>8384</string>
     </example>
     <example>
        <string>2</string>
        <string>453</string>
        <string>8</string>
        <string>dsrsg</string>
     </example>
     <example>
        <string>3</string>
        <string>3456</string>
        <string>11</string>
        <string>grthy</string>
     </example>
     </rows>
   </input>
  </root>                                                                               

Here i have to capture the each example tag and have to get the string values and insert into the db. Im trying to get the values by using xpath but no luck. Also tried by coverting to java object. Please suggest me , how to handle this scenario.

sample code:

 <http:listener config-ref="HTTP_Listener_Configuration1" path="/" doc:name="HTTP"/>
    <logger message="#[payload]" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
    <byte-array-to-object-transformer  mimeType="application/xml" doc:name="Byte Array to Object"/>
    <splitter expression="#[xpath3('/*:root/input/rows', payload, 'NODESET')]" doc:name="Splitter"/>
    <logger message="splitter : #[payload]" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>