XMLQuire's XPath Editor has auto-complete, tracing, syntax-coloring, dynamic-evaluation features at its core.
Blended with a fully-featured XML Editor, a compelling new XPath test and development environment is now offered, building on our orginal SketchPath tool legacy.
XMLQuire is a free 3MB .exe download with no registration
Opening the XPath Editor
The XPath-Location bar, at the very top of the XMLQuire window, is the only visible part of the editor when XMLQuire opens. Double-Click on this for the full XPath Editor view. Alternatively, select the XPath tab on the Find dialog.
Features
Full details are in theXMLQuire documentation, but here are just some of XMLQuire's XPath Features:
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.NET Framework XPath 1.0 processor*
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XPath-Generation from text and node panes
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Auto-Completion - with full predicate/fn context
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Syntax Coloring
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Expression Tracing for predicates/functions/nodes
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Dynamic Evaluation - results as you type
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XPath Help - Context-aware function help
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Evaluation Context - Namespaces and Context Node
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Results synchronised across outline and text views
Screenshot of XMLQuire's XPath Editor
*On XPath 2.0
XPath 2.0 features were trimmed from this product so that it could be kept free. There was a 'premium' product with XPath 2.0, many thanks to the handful of customers who supported this by purchasing; but, after 10,000+ 'evaluation-only' downloads it's been withdrawn from sale because revenue was not even close to covering distribution costs. I don't have the resources to subsidise this product any more than I already am.