XPath Tester
Test XPath expressions against XML documents. Query, filter, and extract data with live results.
No results. Enter an XPath and click Evaluate.
XPath Quick Reference:
//tag - Select all matching tags
/root/child - Absolute path
[@attr='value'] - Filter by attribute
[position] - Select by position (1-indexed)
/text() - Get text content
/* - Select all children
XPath Tester - Technical Details
XPath (XML Path Language) is used to navigate and select nodes in XML documents. It's essential for web scraping, XSLT transformations, and XML data processing. XPath expressions can select elements, attributes, and text nodes using path-like syntax.
Command-line Alternative
# XPath in Python (lxml)\nfrom lxml import etree\ntree = etree.parse('file.xml')\nresults = tree.xpath('//book/title')\n\n# XPath in JavaScript\ndocument.evaluate('//div[@class]', document)