December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
13h 7m
English
Intended AudienceThis appendix is not meant as a complete tutorial on XPath. Rather it is intended as a complement to Chapter 5 for those people who've never used the querying capabilities of the XPath language. It serves as a collection of sample XPath expressions that can be tested with some of Chapter 5's code snippets and demo applications. While not a prerequisite for using XML, understanding XPath will enable you to perform much richer and more complex queries against your data. |
Before getting into the XPath syntax and examples, let's first talk about what it is. At its simplest, XPath is a W3C standardized syntax for accessing parts of an XML document and is typically used in building complex queries ...
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