Eclipse XPath Plugin
Quite a while
ago I had a look into plugin development for Eclipse. Just to get my hands wet with the PDE I scratched an itch I had for a while. I wrote a plugin to visually evaluate XPath expressions from within Eclipse. While you type it evaluates the expression and highlights
the matched notes. It also tells you whether the expression is ok or not. 
Don’t expect a
rock solid plugin – but in general it works. Quite a few improvements I’d like to see though.
- moving the context node
- parse the document in a separate thread (more snappy)
- displaying XPath value results
Unfortunately it seems like a tree view is not capable of holding huge amounts of nodes. Hmmm. Live updating the outline view from the editor content would also be cool …but that would be a “nice to have”. It would certainly be great to have a talk with a serious Eclipse developer. If you want to give it a try here is the update site.
You are wondering why it took me so long to announce it? Go and ask sourceforge *pff* …and I thought german bureaucracy would be slow – anyway.