How to generate xpath from xsd?

Question

How can I generate xpath from an xsd? XSD validates an xml. I am working in a project where I am generating a sample XML from the xsd using java and then generating xpath fr

Answer 1

There are a number of problems with such tools:

The XPath expression generated rarely is a good one. No such tool will produce meaningful predicates beyond position information.

There is no tool (to my knowledge) that would generate an XPath expression that selects exactly a set of selected nodes.

Apart from this, such tools used without learning XPath are really harmful -- they support ignorance.

I would recommend serious learning of XPath using books and other resources such as following.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/339930/any-good-xslt-tutorial-book-blog-site-online/341589#341589

See the following answer for more information..

Is there an online tester for xPath selectors?