Lantern features

Lantern is an OpenSource software which allows users to load XML documents and then test XPath expressions.

The features of Lantern should be:

• be a simple and lightweight software which does nothing but XPath testing
• gives an immediate graphical result (must highlight selected nodes and context node)
• be namespaces aware
• user can set a context node, test expressions relative to these node
• has a small embebbed documentation about XPath
• allows user to test XPath functions easily
• displays the XML document formatted as it is stored in the file (ie not in an ugly tree widget)
• Open Source, platform independant software

Why Lantern ?

I didn't find any software which allows me to test XPath expressions when the XML document have namespaces. Moreover, I don't like the display of XML document in a java swing tree (in fact, it's the way similar xpath tools display XML buffer). For me, it's unreadable. And other XPath tester softwares lack XPath function testing capability. So...I made it myself :-)

Download Lantern

Lantern is an OpenSource project. It can be downloaded on the SourceForge. website.