Should you ever need to work with
XPath extensively, there's
XPather for Firefox, that looks quite nice, but unfortunately I couldn't get it to work today, so I had to improvise. Then I stumpled across the very cool feature of
xmllint, that lets you browse XML documents like directories.
(fa@don
):
(~/tmp
) $ cat
test.xml
<body>
<table><tr><td>a</td><td>b</td></tr></table>
<div>
<table><tr><td>c</td><td>d</td></tr></table>
</div>
</body>
(fa@don):(~/tmp) $ xmllint --shell test.xml
/ > cd //table[parent::div]/tr/td
td > ls
t-- 1 d
td >
And to not be completely offtopic, I'll admit that once I got my XPath expressions, I fed them to
SimpleXML
