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Bug 124154

Summary:	XPath find
Product:	xml	Reporter:	fkieviet <fkieviet>
Component:	Schema Tools	Assignee:	Marius <spanda>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description fkieviet 2007-12-17 18:53:03 UTC

Users often want to use the XML editor in NetBeans to do all their XML work instead of using multiple programs. The use
of XPath expressions is a common activity for enterprise developers. The editor currently does not allow the user to
evaluate XPath expressions.

Proposed feature: in the XML editor the user could bring up the Find dialog box. The find dialog box would have a
checkbox for XPath. If checked, upon execution of Find, the find-string would be evaluated as an XPath expression and it
would highlight all selected nodes and would jump to the first selected node. Find-next would move to the next node.
It's important that the nodes are highlighted. These behaviors are consistent with the current behavior of the Find
functionality.