Allow select and match mode in the XPath Builder

[daliboris]

I often use XPath/XQuery builder for testing XSLT transformations, especially for constructing an XPath to match specific elements/attributes in the XML document.

XPath Builder only allows (as far as I know) to construct an XPath expression, but XSLT uses pattern matching. I usually add "//" to the beginning of the expression in the XPath Builder and remove it when copying to

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xsl:templat/@match

in the XSLT stylesheet.

I suggest adding a switch to XPath Builder with two options:

• select mode - constructed expression works like XPath

• match mode - constructed expression works like XSLT match pattern

I hope that this behavior of XPath Builder is possible and that it saves a lot of time when debugging stylesheets.

[teo]

Yes, your suggestion makes sense.
I will log it in our feature request tracking system for discussion and possibly add it to the development plans for future releases.

Regards,
Teo

[daliboris]

Thank you, Teo.

Best regards,
Boris