[oXygen-user] XPath over sets of files

[George Cristian Bina]

Hi,

Executing XPath over a set of files it is already possible using the 
Saxon 9 collection function. For example

collection('.?select=*.xsd;on-error=ignore')/*

will return the root elements from all the *.xsd files from the 
directory holding the current file and will ignore errors if some *.xsd 
file is not wellformed XML.

Along with the XPath search field in the toolbar oXygen provides also an 
XPath Builder View that gives a better layout for writing these XPath 
queries and also holds a history with the last executed XPath queries.

oXygen allows also to set a CollectionURIResolver for Saxon (in 
Options->Preferences -- XML / XSLT-FO-XQuery / XSLT / Saxon / Saxon-B/SA 
/ Advanced) so basically one can implement support for special 
collections as the results returned by the collection function. Checking 
this - it works only for XSLT and XQuery execution but not for XPath 2.0.

Adding in oXygen support for some default collections as Florent 
suggested looks like a nice idea and we recorded it on our issues 
tracking system.

For more information about using the Saxon collection function see
http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/sourcedocs/collections.html

Best Regards,
George
-- 
George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

Wendell Piez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know about the Find/Replace in Files option on the context menu in the 
> Project View. Run a string (or regular expression) search through a set 
> of files collected in a folder in your project. Cool.
> 
> How about an XPath option that would work the same way? Currently I 
> usually write myself a little Schematron to locate particular nodes, 
> which isn't a big deal. But it would be nice not to have to when the 
> search can be expressed simply in a one-line XPath.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> 
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