Re: [xsl] XPath Find and Replace

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,


These are not find & replace, but only find, as I understand them, but 
perhaps this help you a bit?

XPath checker
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1095

Xpather:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1192

Also, tools like Oxygen have powerful visual xpath tools (xpath 2.0 I 
believe) and quite some others exist, not sure if they can also do 
replace (I use xslt to do that).

Not sure this is what you are after,

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma

Michael Terry wrote:
> Shouldn't text editors for programmers have find-and-replace with
> XPath? In the case of invalid XML, like a fragment or HTML, it should
> try to wrap the text content or convert it to valid XML temporarily in
> memory using a free tool[1].
>
> This comes up for me all the time when editing HTML. It'd be so
> convenient. Most of the time I want to do pattern matching it's on
> markup, and regular expression that can do this have lots of problems:
>
> 1) Multiline matching isn't enabled in the tool I'm using.
> 2) I'm not using perl, so I can't use dynamic patterns.
> 3) The pattern is fragile and breaks on one of the hundreds of
> assumptions I didn't take into account.
>
> [1] Or something. I know some hack is possible, else Firefox
> extensions like Firebug couldn't give me expressions to nodes on
> arbitrary web pages.
>
> - mwt