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+Taverna Workflow system XPath Activity: User Interface part for use in the Taverna Workbench.
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+Extends https://github.com/taverna/taverna-xpath-activity
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+This code was previously hosted at http://taverna.googlecode.com/svn/taverna/ui/net.sf.taverna.t2.ui-activities/
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