XPath Preferences

To configure the XPath options, open the Preferences dialog box and go to XML > XSLT/FO/XQuery > XPath.

Oxygen XML Editor allows you to customize the following options:

Unescape XPath expression - the entities of an XPath expressions that you type in the XPath/XQuery Builder and the XPath toolbar are unescaped during their execution. For example the expression
```
//varlistentry[starts-with(@os,'&#x73;')]
```
is equivalent with:
```
//varlistentry[starts-with(@os,'s')]
```
Multiple XPath results - enable this option to display the results of an XPath in separate tabs in the The Results View.
No namespace - if you enable this option, Oxygen XML Editor considers unprefixed element names of the evaluated XPath 2.0 / 3.0 expressions as belonging to no namespace.
Use the default namespace from the root element - if you enable this option, Oxygen XML Editor considers unprefixed element names of the evaluated XPath expressions as belonging to the default namespace declared on the root element of the XML document you are querying.
Use the namespace of the root - if you enable this option, Oxygen XML Editor considers unprefixed element names of the evaluated XPath expressions as belonging to the same namespace as the root element of the XML document you are querying.
This namespace - in this field you can enter the namespace of the unprefixed elements.
Default prefix-namespace mappings - in this field you can associate prefixes with namespaces. Use these mappings when you want to define them globally, not for each document.