Test XPath Expressions More Easily
Use XPath analysis and debugging tools to build, evaluate and troubleshoot queries for structured content.
XPath is an important technology for navigating and selecting content in XML and HTML documents, supporting applications such as XML processing, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), XQuery, structured publishing, web scraping and automated testing. Modern XML development environments provide tools such as expression builders, syntax checking, code completion and debugging to help developers construct, test and troubleshoot complex XPath expressions and identify unexpected results..
Several XML tools provide XPath testing and analysis capabilities:
- Altova XMLSpy includes an XPath/XQuery window for building, evaluating and debugging expressions. Developers can construct XPath expressions with editing assistance, immediately view evaluation results and step through expressions with the debugger. XPath and XQuery expressions can be evaluated against XML and JSON content.
- Oxygen XML Author by Syncro Soft provides XPath tools supporting content completion for constructing expressions, while XPath queries can also be executed against XML databases. Oxygen includes dedicated XSLT and XQuery debugging capabilities for troubleshooting more extensive XML processing workflows.
- Stylus Studio XML includes an XPath Query Editor for analyzing, testing and debugging XPath expressions against XML documents. It also includes a visual XPath expression generator, which can automatically create expressions for selected XML elements or attributes.
For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of structured document tools.