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Bug 124154 - XPath find
Summary: XPath find
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: xml
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Schema Tools (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Marius
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Reported: 2007-12-17 18:53 UTC by fkieviet
Modified: 2008-03-28 09:40 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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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.