Feature request: Support xpath evaluation on xml documents

[overtomanu]

On xml file, give option "XML: Evaluate xpath" in command palette to evaluate xpath expression on currently open xml document.

I tried following extensions but they are not working for me.

1. XML tools (not actively maintained)
   https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DotJoshJohnson.xml
2. Xpath tester ( does not seem to work with xml files containing namespace )
   https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=creinbacher.xpathtester

It will be great if it works like below extension which is there for Visual Studio IDE (another microsoft IDE)
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=UliWeltersbach.XPathInformation

[angelozerr]

@overtomanu thanks for reporting this issue. It's indeed a nice feature which can be doable but which will require extra work since XPath features is not LSP compliant (it requires to develop a custom view for XPath, custom menu, etc).

For any people who are interested with this XPath support please vote. We will see if there are a lot of users interested with XPath support.

[pgfearo]

There's now an XPath Notebooks extension for VS Code.

It doesn't work quite like Visual Studio as XPath 'cells' are added to a separate Notebook file. Results are shown below each 'cell' - either in a 'raw' view (as shown) or a table:

[twoseascharlie]

@overtomanu thanks for reporting this issue. It's indeed a nice feature which can be doable but which will require extra work since XPath features is not LSP compliant (it requires to develop a custom view for XPath, custom menu, etc).

For any people who are interested with this XPath support please vote. We will see if there are a lot of users interested with XPath support.

I would love to see XPath supported with this extension! It already has such a rich feature set, adding XPath support would be so nice!