XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, for those who are not familiar with this language - here are the W3C specifications and here is the W3schools tutorial. Now that we know XPath, lets get to the point of that post which is - Visual XPath.

This is a free graphical XPath query tool which have many great features, some of those features are:

• Load a XML file and see it in a form of tree. 
• Generate XPath queries dynamically by selecting XML nodes from the loaded file.
• Generate queries for individual attributes.
• Write your own XPath query, execute it on the loaded file and get immediate results.
• Get the C# code to read an XML file and perform your specific query.
• Get all of the namespaces in the loaded XML file.
• Can be integrated with Visual Studio (see details on this site).

Yes, I know that this is an old tool and I also know that XLinq (Linq to XML that was introduced in .Net 3.5) is much newer than XPath, but I still truly recommend this tool, it helps me a lot during my work.

Enjoy it…