XPath Lab

XPath experimentation

• Visit the XPath Examples page a Microsoft Developer Network (MDN). * From that page, download the “Sample XML File for XPath Syntax (inventory.xml.”
• Open the file in Oxygen XML editor and use the XPath toolbar feature, to experiment with searching/selecting parts of the document with XPath. In your experiments, use the XPath examples from MDN’s XPath Examples, and also create your own XPath expressions.
• Download a the third volume of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s collected Poems (1904) (acs0000001–03.xml), encoded in TEI/XML, and conduct further XPath experiments.

Creating and applying an XSLT Stylesheet

• Create an empty XSL 1.0 stylesheet, save it, and apply it to any of your XML documents using the <?xml-stylesheet … ?> processing instruction.
• Open your XML documents, with the added <?xml-stylesheet … ?> processing instruction, in your browser to see the results.
• Set up a “Transformation Scenario” in Oxygen to apply your new stylesheet to your XML documents in Oxygen.