XPath Tester

XPath 1.0 syntax

• / root, // descendants at any depth, . current node, .. parent
• name child element, @name attribute, text() text node
• [predicate] filter — [1] position, [@id='3'] attribute equals, [price>10] comparison
• Axes: ancestor::, descendant::, following-sibling::, preceding::, self::
• Functions: count(), contains(), starts-with(), normalize-space(), string-length(), position(), last()

Common uses

• Web scraping: prototype selectors before pasting into Python lxml or Scrapy
• XSLT development: test path expressions before adding to stylesheet
• SOAP / XML response inspection
• Find specific elements in HTML for E2E test selectors