[xsl] XPath Explorer

[alex at jguru dot com]

XPath Explorer (XPE) is a free, open-source GUI application that lets
you interactively experiment with XPath.  Basically, you type in a URL
(to an XML or HTML document) and an XPath expression, and it displays
the elements or attributes from that document which match that
expression.  It also displays the value (string, number, or boolean)
of the expression, and (in a stunning coup de grace) displays the
entire XML tree of the original document, but with the matching nodes
highlighted in bold. This makes it easy to play with and debug your
XPath expresions.

Please check it out (screenshots, docs, download) at

	http://www.purpletech.com/xpe/

It requires a Java 2 VM (download one from Sun or IBM if you don't
have one already).

I'm especially interested in getting this group to play with it,
since you guys understand XPath a heck of a lot better than I do, and
you actually use it more often (I've been using XPath to test Web
pages, but I'm not a big XSL user).  I'm hoping you'll find flaws and
either fix them, or tell me exactly how to fix them.

Please suggest features, bugs, etc. to me directly.  To stay abreast
of new versions, keep checking this list, or send mail to
purple-subscribe@purpletech.com.

Later -

 - Alex

P.S. Note: one of the bugs is 'Generates paths using "//" and the XSL
gurus say "never use //"' but I'm not sure how to resolve it...

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