Getting the path of an XML node in your code editor
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/27
A few links for my link archive, as I often edit XML files (usually with different extensions than .xml, because historic choices that software development vendors make, which makes it way harder to tell editors “yes, this too is XML).
- Visual Studio Code
- [WayBack] XML Tools – Visual Studio Marketplace: Extension for Visual Studio Code – XML Formatting, XQuery, and XPath Tools for Visual Studio Code
- Visual Studio
- [WayBack] XPath Tools – Visual Studio Marketplace: Extension for Visual Studio – Run XPaths and XPath functions. Browse through results at the click of a button.Track and copy XPaths incl. XML namespaces in various formats, taking the hassle out of complex documents
- Via:
- Notepad++ (note you have to install the plugin as Administrator, and restart Notepad++ to take effect)
- [WayBack] GitHub – morbac/xmltools: XML Tools plugin for Notepad++
This plugin is a small set of useful tools for editing XML with Notepad++. The plugin is libXML2-based. The plugin features are:
– XML syntax Check
– XML Schema (XSD) + DTD Validation
– XML tag autoclose
– Pretty print
– Linarize XML
– Current XML Path
– Conversion XML <-> Text
– Comment / Uncomment
– XPath expression evaluation
Author: Nicolas Crittin
Homepage: https://github.com/morbac/xmltools - [WayBack] XML tools | Notepad++ Community: trying to get the XML tool plugins butim getting how to install option under xml tools
- Via: [WayBack] How to get the xpath of a certain node when viewing an xml file in Visual Studio? – Stack Overflow
- [WayBack] GitHub – morbac/xmltools: XML Tools plugin for Notepad++
–jeroen
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