AquaPath at Mac App Store analyse

App power index: 180 (based on ranks around App Stores today)
Developer Tools
Developer: Celestial Teapot Software
Price: 0 free
Current version: 1.0, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 19 Mar 2011
App size: 538.6 Kb
4.4 ( 1524 ratings )
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> 3.96k
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~ $ 1.62k
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AquaPath is a Developer Tool that allows you to evaluate XPath 2.0 expressions against any XML document and view the result sequence in a dynamic, intuitive tree representation.

Using AquaPath is simple. Paste the contents of an existing XML document or even author an XML document using AquaPath itself (AquaPath is also a rudimentary text editor). The source text of your XML document appears under the "Source" tab in an AquaPath document window. Use this tab to author or edit your document.

Next, type an XPath expression into the "XPath" text field at the top of the AquaPath document window. Click "Evaluate" to see the matching node sequence. You will see a status bar message just below the XPath text field showing either the number of nodes in the result sequence or and error message if your XML document is not well-formed or if your XPath expression is invalid.

Under the "String-Value" tab, youll find a text area containing the string value of the result sequence. The whitespace of each node has been compressed so that you will see a single nodes string value per line. This tabs contents are convenient for copy-pasting the results to another app.

The "Display" tab is where all the magic happens. Here you will see a dynamic (DHTML), syntax-colored representation of your XML document with "-" or "+" signs next to each element node. Use these symbols for collapsing and expanding a given element and its children. Also, all nodes and text matching your XPath expression will be highlighted in yellow.

By default, the "Context Node" of your XPath query is the XML "root node". AquaPath allows you to specify a specific context node for your XPath expression in two ways:

1. Enter the desired path in the Context Node text field manually
2. Right-click an existing node in a previous "Display" document tree, and select "Set as Content Node".
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Canada 2.79 CAD
China 12 CNY
France 2.29 EUR
Germany 2.29 EUR
Italy 2.29 EUR
Netherlands 2.29 EUR
Portugal 2.29 EUR
Spain 2.29 EUR
Poland 2.29 EUR
UK 1.99 GBP
India 159 INR
Japan 250 JPY
Korea, Republic Of 999.99 KRW
Poland 8.99 PLN
Russia 149 RUB
Turkey 12.99 TRY
USA 1.99 USD
Korea, Republic Of 2.19 USD
Ukraine 1.99 USD
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Ne fonctionne pas (avec les gros fichiers)

Jen avais besoin sur un export XML Excel 2003 : le fichier faisait 5Mo, lapp a planté sans la tester réellement en de bonnes conditions. Dommage, car lidée était bonne.

Currently not very useful

Yes, its possible to execute XPath queries, but thats almost all. You cant load/import files, there is no quick navigation to results (or reduce the view to them), no export options, no options to save queries, no query history, no help.

Works as intended, but not more

What about some convenience features? I would pay 1-3 bucks more for the app if it had more features. One example: Right now I have to copy the contens of an XML file into the editor area. Importing from XML could be offered as a menu item. Another one would be to provide a filtered view that displays only the elements that match the XPath expression. With large XML files it is very tedious to do all the scrolling.

Doesnt work - dont buy

This app doesnt work and should not be in the app store. If this was software I bought from a regular store, Id return it, but it looks like Apple doesnt support that. It doesnt even work with simple XML. There is no syntax highlighting contrary to the screenshots...

GUI equivalent of the xpath command line tool, worth $2 despite drawbacks

A GUI equivalent of the xpath command line tool, worth $2 despite drawbacks. This is clearly a simple tool built by the author for his specific purpose, without much effort to make it apply to others purpose. However, you can not directly open an XML file with an arbitrary extension from within the app. If you try to open it using the menu, it warns you that it cant. If you try to drag the file into the source pane, you get the path of the file inserted into the source pane instead of the content of your file. That said, once you get the XML in (drag the contents of the file over from TextWrangler, copy-paste, whatever), itll run xpath queries on it and show the results. Im not sorry I spent $2 on this, though Id rather have spent $20 on a more polished tool. :)

very bad

It’s not working with invalid DOM. For example, if DOM has a non closed tag, this app will be shows an error message until you do fix it. Most popular tools for DOM can skip similar errors if you want it. I think author must fix it… wasted money :(

too bad

just not work for me with valid xml file. want money back

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