[RSPEC-140] Track breaches of an XPath rule - SonarSource

Message:
The XPath expression matches this piece of code.
List of parameters:
- Key: xpathQuery
  - Description: The XPath query
- Key: message
  - Description: The issue message
  - Default: The XPath expression matches this piece of code
Default Severity:
Major
Impact:
Low
Likelihood:
High
Template Rule:

Yes
Legacy Key:
xpath, XPathCheck, XPathCheckPlSql, COBOL.XPath, XPath
Targeted languages:

C#, Cobol, JavaScript, VB.Net
Covered Languages:

Flex, PL/I, PL/SQL, Python, XML
Irrelevant for Languages:

C, C++, Objective-C

This rule allows the definition of custom rules using XPath expressions.

Issues are created depending on the return value of the XPath expression. If the XPath expression returns:

a single or list of AST nodes, then a line issue with the given message is created for each node
a boolean, then a file issue with the given message is created only if the boolean is true
anything else, no issue is created

Here is an example of an XPath expression to log an issue on each 'td' tag using the 'nowrap' deprecated attribute:

//td[@nowrap]

is implemented by

CPP-707 Create Objective-C rules repository containing targeted rules

is related to

RULEAPI-248 Mark XPath rule deprecated

relates to

SONARCOBOL-1243 Deprecate the XPath rule template

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