Interactive Xpath Expression Builder

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I use Xpath queries about once a year, so of course I completely forget the syntax every time I come back to it. And each time this happens, I somehow find Aaron Skonnard's very cool web-based interactive Xpath Expression Builder, which lets you hack on Xpath with real time visual feedback as you type. It's great. Except this time I couldn't find it!

This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/12/interactive-xpath-expression-builder.html
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I’ve had good success with the Zvon tutorials:

http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html

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The MSDN links have changed. The update links are:

XPath syntax examples:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256086.aspx

XPath Reference:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256115.aspx

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Does not seem to work with IE 7. I was using the link to version 4.0.

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Sorry, looks to be working fine. I did not have MSXML 4.0 installed. Also, I simply edited the default.htm file and replaced “4.0” with “6.0” and the tool appears to be working fine with MSXML 6.0.

If you are looking for a place to download the files from try “http://www.pluralsight.com/tools.aspx”.

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It looks very strange in google chrome! (It’s not supposed to work on Chrome?)