1. Developing SOA Applications with Oracle SOA Suite
  2. XPath Extension Functions
  3. Building XPath Expressions in the Expression Builder in Oracle JDeveloper
  4. Introduction to the XPath Building Assistant

Introduction to the XPath Building Assistant

Several dialogs enable you to specify XPath expressions with the XPath Building Assistant, including:

  • Expression field of the Expression Builder dialog

  • Expression field of the Initialize tab of the Create Variable dialog in BPEL 2.0

  • Edit XPath Expression and Edit Function dialogs of the XSLT Map Editor

Manually specifying long and complex expressions is supported, but can be a cumbersome and error-prone process. The XPath Building Assistant provides the following set of features that simplify this process:

  • Automatic completion of the following:

    • Elements and attributes

    • Functions

    • BPEL variables and parts

  • Function parameter tool tips

  • Syntactic and semantic validation of XPaths