Something I wrote in 2000. It is a quite popular XPath learning tool.

Read more here:

http://topxml.com/xpathvisualizer/

A version for Mozilla/Firefox is also available.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev



"Xerox" <anon@a...> wrote in message 
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> Dimitre, what is the "XPath Visualizer"?
>
> "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@y...> wrote in message
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>> "Xerox" <anon@a...> wrote in message
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>> > Can I not execute the xpath without a stylesheet?
>> >
>> > I want something like this: totalPrice = XMLDocument.Evaluate
>> > ("sum(//item/@price)")
>> >
>> No, there's no method to evaluate an XPath expression that evaluates to a
>> scalar (something that is not a node-set).
>>
>> Using the transformNode() method is what is used inside the XPath
> Visualizer
>> to obtain the result of evaluating any such XPath expression. It first
>> catches the failure of selectNodes(), then it analyses the error message
> to
>> determine that this is not another type of error, then finally, if the
> error
>> message is for trying to evaluate an XPath expression returning a scalar,
> it
>> invokes transformNode() with a dynamically modified (to have the
> particular
>> XPath expression as the value of an "select" attribute) generic 
>> stylesheet
>> that produces the result of evaluating the XPath expression.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dimitre Novatchev.
>>
>>
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