hi,

some more information about XPath...

XPath is a language for finding information in an XML document. XPath is used to navigate through elements and attributes in an XML document.

* XPath is a syntax for defining parts of an XML document
* XPath uses path expressions to navigate in XML documents
* XPath contains a library of standard functions
* XPath is a major element in XSLT
[b] * XPath is a W3C Standard

XPath Path Expressions

XPath uses path expressions to select nodes or node-sets in an XML document. These path expressions look very much like the expressions you see when you work with a traditional computer file system.

XPath Standard Functions

XPath includes over 100 built-in functions. There are functions for string values, numeric values, date and time comparison, node and QName manipulation, sequence manipulation, Boolean values, and more.

XPath is Used in XSLT

XPath is a major element in the XSLT standard. Without XPath knowledge you will not be able to create XSLT documents.

XPath is a W3C Standard

XPath was designed to be used by XSLT, XPointer and other XML parsing software.

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