When you click Edit in any field that allows XPath Expressions, the XPath Builder opens.
The XPath Builder supports alternative starting points:
- The XPath is not resolved relative to the root node of the XML document, but from another XML element.
- When a proper JDF is used as the example XML, a list of possible starting points is generated.
- The first possible starting point is automatically used to configure the XPath builder.
- In this example, the XPath builder is used to create an XPath for a product part
attribute:
- The XPath builder automatically uses the first PageData node as starting point. This is visualised by showing the content outside the PageData node in grey.
- It is still possible to select nodes outside the PageData node as result node or as predicate node.
- When selecting nodes outside the PageData node, the XPath builder will create absolute XPaths.
- When you want, you can modify these absolute paths by making them relative to the PageData node using ../
- While the XPath builder automatically selects the appropriate starting point, it is still possible to manually change the starting point by clicking on another node while holding down Command (Mac) or CTRL (Windows).