Introducing Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003

Navigating Documents with XPath

InfoPath uses XPath 1.0 to locate specific nodes of a document, return node values, manipulate text, and perform calculations on numeric values. XPath is InfoPath’s only XML technology that isn’t represented by XML documents; XSLT form views use XPath expressions to select the XML data document’s element and attribute values to appear in HTML controls. The declarative conditional formatting and data validation rules you add to forms generate XPath expressions to perform the tests.

See Also

The Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 3.0 parser was the first version to support XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0. Installing Microsoft Office System 2003 or InfoPath installs MSXML 5.0. To learn more about XPath, search for “XPath ...