An XML viewer/editor that provides XPath for nodes

Question

I am an XSLT designer, and I find it hard to type XPath expressions of nodes manually. Is there any XML editor or viewer which can give me XPath expressions that I can copy-paste? I want to put them in XSL files.

Answer 1

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 :))

Answer 2

XML Spy http://www.altova.com/xmlspy.html

Answer 3

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_editor.html#xpathAwareCC

Hope that helps, George

Answer 4

altova XML spy provides you this option .. I am sure ..

Answer 5

I suggest the XPather Firefox Addon, from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1192/

Answer 6

Tools come and go and change monetization models, so take this with a grain of salt, but here's a list of some of the existing XML tools on the market

VS Code Extensions

• XML Tools
• XSLT/XPath for Visual Studio Code
• XPath Tools

Online

• Code Beautify - XPath Tester
• XmlToolBox - XPath Generator
• FreeFormatter - XPath Tester / Evaluator

Applications

• JetBrains - IntelliJ IDEA - XPath Viewer $149
• Liquid - XPath Tools $297
• Altova - XMLSpy $549
• Oxygen - XSLT Editor $198