Interactive XPath Expression Builder 4.0 provides a simple HTML interface for evaluating the results of an XPath expression against a loaded XML document - the results are highlighted interactively as you type the expression. Requires MSXML 4.0.
Click here for the full-size screenshot. In addition to the basic node-set evaluation functionality, this tool supports the following features:
- Value expressions (e.g., 'sum(//Price)') [screenshot]
- Namespace bindings (allows you to use prefixes in your XPath expressions) [screenshot]
- Selecting the current context node (highlighted in blue, for evaluating relative expressions) [screenshot]
- Support for Microsoft XSD extension functions - you load a schema to associate with the document first, then use the Microsoft extension functions [screenshot]
- User control over font-sizes and how results are highlighted
This tool is almost 4 years old and has proven helpful to many developers trying to learn the intricacies of XPath. It has been contributed to by several others including Martin Gudgin and Scott Bloom.
Download here.
Posted
Jan 19 2004, 08:05 PM
by
Aaron Skonnard