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Nice! Do you write them out by hand, or make use of any libraries or tools to help you compose them? I've been experimenting with a few different ways to express XPaths.

Raw XPath:

//*[@id='attr-number']//*[@data-price >= 5]

XPath with embedded CSS selectors:

`${css('#attr-number')}//*[@data-price >= 5]`

XPath with LISP-style helper functions:

(anyNode
  (tag
    ('*',
      attrEquals('id', 'attr-number',
        anyNode
          (tag
            ('*',
              attrGreaterEquals('data-price', '5')))))))

XPath with JS-style helper functions:

xpath()
  .anyNode()
  .tag('*')
  .attrEquals('id', 'attr-number')
    .anyNode()
    .tag('*')
    .attrGreaterEquals('data-price', '5')
      .value

And I'm sure there are many more ways you could approach writing and composing XPath selectors. Do you use any helpers like this, or know of any preprocessors or tools that help people get the XPath they need written down without necessarily having to write it all out by hand?

In VBScript there aren’t that much possibilities. Primary I use MSXMLDocument and apply handwritten xpath expressions on it, so no helper library or kind of at all.

Only thing is that I use a website or a editor plugin to validate and develop a xpath expression on a sample XML.