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helpful xpath utilities (for IE5)
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- Subject: helpful xpath utilities (for IE5)
- From: "Aaron Skonnard" <aarons at develop dot com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:53:05 -0600
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Here are a couple of new IE/DHTML utilities for XPath. The first is an
interactive XPath/XSLPatterns expression builder. If you saw my previous
one, this one is a big improvement because it highlights the selected nodes
as you type. If you're trying to learn XPath, it might be helpful. It also
places a dot in front of the selected nodes to help identify the selection
if you type something like this: //*
[1] http://staff.develop.com/aarons/bits/xpath-builder
(requires IE5 and MSXML 3.0)
The second utility automatically abbreviates a verbose XPath expression. It
collapses 'child::', 'attribute::', '/descendant-or-self::node()/',
'self::node()', 'parent::node()', and [position() = 5] variants into their
corresponding abbreviations.
[2] http://staff.develop.com/aarons/bits/xpath-compress
(only requires IE4, I think)
If you find these useful, you may want to check out this similar XSLT
utility:
[3] http://staff.develop.com/aarons/bits/dhtml-xslt/default.htm
Any feedback is appreciated,
-aaron
http://staff.develop.com/aarons
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