Generate XPath from selection
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 10:26 pm
Currently, you can type in an XPath and it will highlight a portion of the XML file. You know, it would be really nice if we could highlight a set of nodes in the XML document and have Oxygen generate an XPath that would match your selection.
I'm working on a project where we're creating an XML language to define University courses. Part of the project is the ability to generate HTML pages on the fly from the course content - which means only showing a portion of the course at a time. Depending on the portions that we want to show....the XPath selections can get quite hairy. Having a way to select XML and generate XPath locations would rock big time.
It would probably be limited to selecting entire nodes....but still. Has anyone else thought about this?
I'm working on a project where we're creating an XML language to define University courses. Part of the project is the ability to generate HTML pages on the fly from the course content - which means only showing a portion of the course at a time. Depending on the portions that we want to show....the XPath selections can get quite hairy. Having a way to select XML and generate XPath locations would rock big time.
It would probably be limited to selecting entire nodes....but still. Has anyone else thought about this?