XML in Office 2003: Information Sharing with Desktop XML

Chapter 17. XPath primer Friendly Tutorial

• Location paths

• Addressing multiple objects

• Children and descendants

• Attributes

• Predicates

XPath is a notation for addressing information within a document. That information could be:

• An “executive summary” of a longer document.

• A glossary of terms whose definitions are scattered throughout a manual.

• The specific sequence of steps, buried in a large reference work, needed to solve a particular problem.

• The customized subset of information that a particular customer subscribes to.

• All the sections and subsections of a book that were written by a particular author or revised since a specific date.

• For documents holding information from relational databases, all the typical queries made of relational databases: a particular ...