XPath Query Language

An XPath Query Language is a query language for XML documents.

• AKA XML Path Language.
• Context:
  • It can be used to express an XPath Expression.
• See: XQuery, XSLT, XPointer, XML Schema (W3C), XForms, XML.

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References

2016

• (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath Retrieved:2016-6-17.
  • XPath, the XML Path Language, is a query language for selecting nodes from an XML document. In addition, XPath may be used to compute values (e.g., strings, numbers, or Boolean values) from the content of an XML document. XPath was defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

2015

• http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/xpath_intro.asp
  • QUOTE: XPath is used to navigate through elements and attributes in an XML document.
  • XPath is a major element in W3C's XSLT standard.
  • XPath is a syntax for defining parts of an XML document
  • XPath uses path expressions to navigate in XML documents
  • XPath contains a library of standard functions
  • XPath is a major element in XSLT
  • XPath is a W3C recommendation

2009

• Sourav S Bhowmick, Zhifeng Ng, Curtis Dyreson, Erwin Leonardi . (2009). “Towards Non-Directional XPath Evaluation in a RDBMS.” In: Proceedings of CIKM 2009 (CIKM 2009).

1999

• XML Path Lamguage (XPath) version 1.0. W3C Recommendation. http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath

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