What is XPATH?

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) defines XPATH (1.0, 2.0, 3.0) as follows: XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, designed to be used by both XSLT and XPointer. The quoted definition from the W3C is correct, however, we feel that a better definition would be: XPATH is a path addressing […]

Wildcards

XPATH allows the use of wildcards to write more robust path expressions where the use of specific path expressions is either impossible or undesirable.

Path Expressions

XPATH path expressions are used to refer to specific nodes or values in an XML document.

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Just the basics

The tutorials attempt to provide an in-depth view of each individual XML technology standard to enable you to effectively use them in real-life scenarios.

XML Tutorial

XML is a simple text-based format for representing structured information.

XPATH Tutorial

XPATH is a query language to select nodes, values or compute values from the content of an XML document.

XSLT Tutorial

XSL Transformations is a language for transforming XML documents into a target document and format such as plain text, XML, HTML, RSS or etc.

Examples on how to implement and use XML technologies in common programming languages such as C#, Java, Visual Basic, JavaScript and etc...

Java

Java examples for XML, XPATH and XSLT. Each example addresses a common aspect of using XML technologies with Java.

.NET

.NET examples for XML, XPATH and XSLT. Each example addresses a common aspect of using XML technologies with either C# or Visual Basic.