XPath Expression Tester

My first user sample is up on GotDotNet. It’s a visual XPath expression tester, and already I’m not that happy with it. I stupidly left the .obj files from the build in. I didn’t mention in the summary that it is a Visual Studio 2003 project (altho I have compiled it to support framework 1.0 and 1.1, and I have tested it on 1.0), and after I uploaded it I ran FxCop over it and noticed that there were a couple of methods that were nolonger called, but that I hadn’t removed. Yikes! I’ve also thought of a couple of ways to make it a little easier to use also. I’ll upload another version that fixes these problems some time this week.

Comments

Darrel Miller
Nice job. Could I suggest that you add the ability to define namespaces and their corresponding prefixes? Currently, if the XML document you are attempting to test against has a namespace, then the XPath will not be able to locate any element.

Maybe the next project could be a XML Schema tester. Load a schema, load an XML doc and check to see if all is good? Just an idea :-)
1/09/2003 1:31:00 PM