How is this different from Extract All XML Values?

Extract All XML Values dumps every leaf value with no search. Find XML Values is query-driven, only showing values that actually contain your search term, which is faster when you're hunting for one specific piece of data in a large document.

Is the search case-sensitive?

No, matching is a case-insensitive substring search against the value text only, not the element path.

What does the path next to each match mean?

Each match is labeled "path: value", where the path is the dot-notation chain of element names leading to that value, so you can tell where in the document a match came from.

XML Value Finder - Search Text Content Online

Overview

Introduction

Finding one specific value inside a large XML document by scrolling through raw markup is slow.

This tool searches every leaf text value live and shows exactly where each match lives.

What Is XML Value Finder?

A live search over every leaf text value in a parsed XML document, matching substrings case-insensitively.

Each result is labeled with its element path, so you know exactly where a match came from.

How XML Value Finder Works

The document is walked once, collecting every non-blank leaf text value along with the dot-notation path of element names leading to it.

That list is filtered against your search text on every keystroke.

When To Use XML Value Finder

Use it to locate a specific piece of data inside a large, unfamiliar document without scrolling through raw markup.

It's a faster alternative to Extract All XML Values once you already know a fragment of the value you're looking for.

Often used alongside XML Value Extractor, XML Key Finder and XML Value Replacer.

Features

Advantages

Live, query-driven search.
Shows exactly where each match came from via its element path.
Runs entirely client-side.

Limitations

Searches leaf text values only, not attribute values, use Extract All XML Values or the XML to JSON Converter to inspect attributes.
Matching is substring-only, there's no regular expression or numeric range search.

Examples

Searching for a value

Input

<user><name>Ada Lovelace</name><email>ada@example.com</email></user>

Output

Searching "ada" -> ["user.name: Ada Lovelace", "user.email: ada@example.com"]

Both values contain "ada" case-insensitively, each labeled with its path.

Best Practices & Notes

Best Practices

Leave the search empty to see every leaf value with its path, useful for a quick content overview.
Search for a distinctive fragment of the value rather than the whole thing, to tolerate minor formatting differences.
Use the path shown next to each match to jump to the right spot in the raw XML.

Developer Notes

Value/path pairs are collected once per input change via `useMemo`, then filtered on every keystroke without re-parsing the document.

XML Value Finder Use Cases

Locating a specific value inside a large, unfamiliar document
Confirming a value appears (and where) before writing an XPath query
Spot-checking that a data migration didn't drop a specific value

Common Mistakes

Expecting attribute values to be searched, only element text content is included.
Assuming zero results means the value is missing entirely, it might live in an attribute instead.

Tips

Leave the query empty to browse every value and path in the document.
Check the FAQ above if the output doesn't look like what you expected.

XML Value Finder