---
name: "4xpath"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python-4suite-xml"
version: "1.0.2-7.2"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/4xpath"
---

# 4xpath(1)

command-line tool for performing XPath queries on XML documents

## NAME

4xpath — command-line tool for performing XPath queries on XML documents

## SYNOPSIS

**4xpath** \[-h  \| --help \]  \[-V  \| --version \]  \[-D  \| --define=*NAME=VALUE* \]  \[-N  \| --namespace=*PREFIX=NAMESPACE* \]  \[-e  \| --stacktrace-on-error \]  \[--string \]  {source-uri }  {expression }

## OPTIONS

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long  options starting with two dashes (\`-').

- \-h, --help

  Show detailed help message.

- \-V, --version

  Display version information and exit.

- \-D, --define=*NAME=VALUE*

  Bind a top-level parameter.

- \-N, --namespace=*PREFIX=NAMESPACE*

  Define a namespace/prefix binding.

- \-e, --stacktrace-on-error

  Display a stack trace when an error occurs.

- \--string

  Print the string-value of the results.

- source-uri

  The URI of the XML document to parse, or "-" to indicate standard input. The document's root node will be used as the context node.

- expression

  The XPath expression to evaluate.

## AUTHOR

Raphael Bossek \<bossekr@debian.org\>

## VERSION

$Revision: 1.1 $

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2006 Raphael Bossek

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or  (at your option) any later version.