Easy Xpath?

triggerthat · 19 Oct 2007 at 16:36

Is there an application where you can just select an XML element and have an application return the full xpath to that element?

elkdanger · 19 Oct 2007 at 19:28

triggerthat said:
Is there an application where you can just select an XML element and have an application return the full xpath to that element?

Not that I know of. However, there are a few applications around that will let you supply an XML file, let you enter an XPath string and then show you which elements match.

XPath isn't that difficult tbh. Any particular problem you're struggling with?

triggerthat · 20 Oct 2007 at 12:50

Hey,

I've been using XMLSpy and I can get to an element (within a SOAP body) however the XPath contains an X namespace (X:GetValueForExample) which I cannot get around.

stuart38 · 21 Oct 2007 at 02:38

you need to use the local-name() function if I remember correctly, it then ignores any prefixes and just matched to the element name

look it up on google or w3schools

Goksly · 21 Oct 2007 at 13:01

if you are using a .net programming language (and i assume java will have something similar) just create a xml namespace manager and drop in the prefix.

Shoseki · 21 Oct 2007 at 23:44

http://xmlsoft.org/ is the website of libxml, which has xpath as part of it.

If you are coding in c++ ofc.

triggerthat · 22 Oct 2007 at 09:09

I am just using it in a XSL to store an element to a variable.

Pr0t0c0L · 22 Oct 2007 at 23:47

foxe xml editor is good