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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.