Name

XPath

Status

XPath became a W3C Recommendation in November 1999. The specification is published at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/. XPath 2.0 Working Drafts include the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/, XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/, XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics at http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-semantics/, and XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20.

Description

XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, designed to be used by both XSLT and XPointer. XPath 2.0 was expanded considerably to add support for W3C XML Schema information and XQuery.

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