Being an XSLT designer, I am finding it hard to type XPath of nodes manually ... is there any editor or xml viewer which can give me Xpath of the nodes so that I can copy paste them :)
thanx in advance
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which is the better XML viewer/editor where I can get XPath of nodes .. (to copy them to xsl file)
Oh no, not the buggy, way-too-expensive, with terrible "we are the best" attitude, Altova XML Spy! If you have the money it's a good middle-class product, but not-so-good when it comes to exact standards compliance for XSLT/XPath 1.0 and 2.0 (which I assume you use). Better in that respect are oXygen and Stylus Studio which are both backed by Saxon for syntax check as opposed to a closed source unfinished beta XPath/XSLT processor (Altova). And, more importantly, they come cheap with excellent support.
Abel
2009-12-10 14:17:28
I like stylus studio also - oXygen not so much. Still XMLSpy is usually a good choice.
sylvanaar
2009-12-10 14:21:43
I agree with both of you :)
infant programmer
2009-12-11 06:45:59
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oXygen offers you the possibility to copy the XPath location of an element and then you can use that in your XSLT. However, that is not the way you should work...
oXygen provides XPath content completion when you edit the XSLT document. It offers you the element and attribute name tests looking into the XML associated with the XSLT in the transformation scenario. You can find more details and a link to a video demo here http://www.oxygenxml.com/xslt%5Feditor.html#xpathAwareCC
Hope that helps, George
George Bina
2009-12-10 19:29:00
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I suggest the XPather Firefox Addon, from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1192/
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if its only for xpath .. one can use notepad ++ software with its plug-ins relevant to xml,
I have been using this from many days :) it works just fine :))
infant programmer
2010-08-25 13:12:46