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Why EditiX XML Editor? It provides users with an extensive range of XML functionality within a refined IDE that guides you with intelligent entry helpers. This XML Editor has realtime XPath location and syntax error detection. Helpers are also provided with context.
Manage and manipulate XML files
| Read XML from file |
| Write XML to file |
| Execute XPath expression |
| Get XML element attribute |
| Set XML element attribute |
| Remove XML element attribute |
| Get XML element value |
| Set XML element value |
| Insert XML element |
| Remove XML element |
Read XML from file
Read the contents of an XML file into a variable
Input Parameters
- XML is the most powerful data storage and transfer medium on the web. It works as XML Viewer, XML Formatter, XML Editor,XML Validator. What can you do with XML Viewer/ XML Formatter? It helps to beautify/format your XML. It helps to display your XML in a tree view. This also works as XML Pretty Print. It helps to minify your XML.
- XPath Tester / Evaluator Allows you to test your XPath expressions/queries against a XML file. This tool runs better than other existing XPath online tools as it supports most of the XPath functions (string , number , name , string-length etc.) and does not limit you to working against nodes.
| Argument | Optional | Accepts | Default Value | Description |
|---|
| File path: | No | File | The file that contains the XML document to read |
| Encoding: | N/A | Default, ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian, UTF-8 | Default | The encoding used for the specified file |
Variables Produced
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|
| XmlDocument | XML node | The variable that holds the read XML document |
Exceptions
| Exception | Description |
|---|
| Directory not found | Indicates that the directory doesn't exist |
| File not found | Indicates that the file doesn't exist |
| Failed to read from file | Indicates a problem reading from file |
| File doesn't contain a valid XML document | Indicates that the file doesn't contain a valid XML document |
Write XML to file
Write the contents of an XML node variable into a file
Input Parameters
| Argument | Optional | Accepts | Default Value | Description |
|---|
| File path: | No | File | The file to write the XML document into |
| XML to write: | No | Text value | The XML node or document to write into the file |
| Encoding: | N/A | Default, ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian, UTF-8 | Default | The encoding used for the specified file |
| Format XML: | N/A | Boolean value | True | Specifies whether to format the XML |
| Indentation per level: | Yes | Numeric value | 2 | Specifies by how many spaces to indent each level of the XML |
Variables Produced
- This action doesn't produce any variables
Exceptions
| Exception | Description |
|---|
| Invalid directory specified | Indicates that the specified directory is invalid |
| Failed to write XML to file | Indicates a problem writing XML to file |
Execute XPath expression
Extract values from an XML document based on the provided XPath query
Input Parameters
| Argument | Optional | Accepts | Default Value | Description |
|---|
| XML document to parse: | No | Text value | The XML as text or a previously defined variable that contains the XML document to parse |
| XPath query: | No | Text value | The XPath expression to execute against the XML document |
| Get first value only: | N/A | Boolean value | False | Specifies whether to retrieve a single value (the first value only) or all the values that match the provided XPath expression |
Variables Produced
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|
| XPathResult | XML node | The extracted node(s) as an XML node |
| XPathResults | List of XML nodes | The extracted node(s) as a list of XML nodes |
Exceptions
| Exception | Description |
|---|
| Invalid XML document provided | Indicates that the XML document provided is invalid |
| Invalid XPath expression provided | Indicates that the XPath expression provided is invalid |
Get XML element attribute
Get the value of an attribute of an XML element
Input Parameters
| Argument | Optional | Accepts | Default Value | Description |
|---|
| XML document: | No | XML node | The XML document or XML element to retrieve its attribute |
| XPath query | Yes | Text value | The XPath expression to locate the sub-element and retrieve its attribute |
| Attribute name: | No | Text value | The name of the attribute to retrieve its value |
| Get value as: | N/A | Text value, Numeric value, Datetime value, Boolean value | Text value | Specifies the data type for the attribute value |
Variables Produced
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|
| XmlAttributeValue | Boolean value | The retrieved value of the XML attribute |
| XmlAttributeValue | Datetime | The retrieved value of the XML attribute |
| XmlAttributeValue | Numeric value | The retrieved value of the XML attribute |
| XmlAttributeValue | Text value | The retrieved value of the XML attribute |
Exceptions
| Exception | Description |
|---|
| Invalid XPath expression provided | Indicates that the XPath expression provided is invalid |
| XPath expression returns no element | Indicates that the XPath expression returns no element |
| Attribute not found in element | Indicates that the attribute doesn't exist in the element |
| Failed to convert attribute value to the requested data type | Indicates a problem converting the attribute value to the requested data type |
Set XML element attribute
Set the value of an attribute of an XML element
Input Parameters
| Argument | Optional | Accepts | Default Value | Description |
|---|
| XML document: | No | XML node | The XML document or XML element to set its attribute |
| XPath query: | Yes | Text value | The XPath expression to locate the sub-element and set its attribute |
| Attribute name: | No | Text value | The name of the attribute to set its value |
| Attribute value: | No | Text value | The new value for the attribute |
Variables Produced
- This action doesn't produce any variables
Exceptions
| Exception | Description |
|---|
| Invalid XPath expression provided | Indicates that the XPath expression provided is invalid |
| XPath expression returns no element | Indicates that the XPath expression returns no element |
| Failed to set XML attibute | Indicates a problem setting the XML attibute |
Remove XML element attribute
Remove an attribute from an XML element
Input Parameters
| Argument | Optional | Accepts | Default Value | Description |
|---|
| XML document: | No | XML node | The XML document or XML element to remove its attribute |
| XPath query: | Yes | Text value | The XPath expression to locate the sub-element and remove its attribute |
| Attribute name: | No | Text value | The name of the attribute to remove |
Variables Produced
- This action doesn't produce any variables
Exceptions
| Exception | Description |
|---|
| Invalid XPath expression provided | Indicates that the XPath expression provided is invalid |
| XPath expression returns no element | Indicates that the XPath expression returns no element |
| Attribute not found in element | Indicates that the attribute doesn't exist in the element |
| Failed to remove XML attibute | Indicates a problem removing the XML attibute |
Get XML element value
Get the value of an XML element
Input Parameters
| Argument | Optional | Accepts | Default Value | Description |
|---|
| XML document: | No | XML node | The XML document or XML element to retrieve its value |
| XPath query: | Yes | Text value | The XPath expression to locate the sub-element and retrieve its value |
| Get value as: | N/A | Text value, Numeric value, Datetime value, Boolean value | Text value | Specifies the data type for the XML element value |
Variables Produced
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|
| XmlElementValue | Boolean value | The XML element value |
| XmlElementValue | Datetime | The XML element value |
| XmlElementValue | Numeric value | The XML element value |
| XmlElementValue | Text value | The XML element value |
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Exceptions
| Exception | Description |
|---|
| Invalid XPath expression provided | Indicates that the XPath expression provided is invalid |
| XPath expression returns no element | Indicates that the XPath expression returns no element |
| Failed to convert element value to the requested data type | Indicates a problem converting the element value to the requested data type |
Set XML element value
Set the value of an XML element
Input Parameters
| Argument | Optional | Accepts | Default Value | Description |
|---|
| XML document: | No | XML node | The XML document or XML element to retrieve it value |
| XPath query: | Yes | Text value | The XPath expression to locate the sub-element and retrieve its value |
| XML element value: | No | Text value | The new value for the XML element |
Variables Produced
- This action doesn't produce any variables
Exceptions
| Exception | Description |
|---|
| Invalid XPath expression provided | Indicates that the XPath expression provided is invalid |
| XPath expression returns no element | Indicates that the XPath expression returns no element |
| Failed to set element value | Indicates a problem setting the element value |
Insert XML element
Insert a new XML element into an XML document
Input Parameters
| Argument | Optional | Accepts | Default Value | Description |
|---|
| XML document: | No | XML node | The XML document to insert the new XML element |
| XPath query: | No | Text value | The XPath expression to locate the parent XML element and insert the new element into it |
| XML element to insert: | No | XML node | The new XML element to insert into the XML document |
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Variables Produced
- This action doesn't produce any variables
Exceptions
| Exception | Description |
|---|
| Invalid XPath expression provided | Indicates that the XPath expression provided is invalid |
| XPath expression returns no element | Indicates that the XPath expression returns no element |
| Failed to insert XML element | Indicates a problem inserting the XML element |
Remove XML element
Remove one or more XML elements from an XML document
Input Parameters
| Argument | Optional | Accepts | Default Value | Description |
|---|
| XML document: | No | XML node | The XML document that contains the XML element(s) to remove |
| XPath query: | No | Text value | The XPath expression to locate the element(s) to remove |
Variables Produced
- This action doesn't produce any variables
Exceptions
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| Exception | Description |
|---|
| Invalid XPath expression provided | Indicates that the XPath expression provided is invalid |
| Failed to remove XML element | Indicates a problem removing the XML element |