An XPath represents a path, and when evaluated on a tree, the result is the node set at the end of any path in the tree. HTML, the formatting language used to configure the data in web pages, aims to create a visually appealing interface.
In particular, XML Path Language (XPath) provides powerful syntax for handling specific elements of an XML document and, to the same extent, HTML web pages, in a simple way. XPath is defined as a DOM by the World Wide Web Consortium.
There are two ways to use XPath:
- To identify a single item in the document tree
- To address multiple instances of the same item
The main weakness of XPath is its lack of flexibility. Each XPath expression is strictly related to the structure ...
