July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
22h 32m
English
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Chapter 11. Locating Components in XML Documents with XPath
by Andrew Watt
In this chapter
What Is XPath?
XPath Concepts
XPath Node Types
XPath Axes
XPath Functions
Extra: XPath 2.0
Additional Resources
Roadmap
One of the fundamental things that you need to do when retrieving or manipulating any XML content is to locate the part of the XML document that you want to work on. If you want to extract selected XML information, you need a syntax to unambiguously express the parts of the XML document you want to extract. XPath provides that syntax.