How to read an XML element value
There are a number of methods to read an XML element value. We present two common methods here: Locate and read an element value using the XML DOM; or Locate and read an element using XPATH expressions.
More InfoWhat 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 […]
More InfoXPATH Data Types
XPATH is a query-language specifically designed to retrieve results from an XML document hierarchy. As such the value of the result can be one of a finite set of data types where the data type is defined by the values it can take as well as the operations / functions which can be performed on […]
More InfoXPATH Tutorial
XPATH is a query language to select nodes, values or compute values from the content of an XML document.
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XSL Transformations is a language for transforming XML documents into a target document and format such as plain text, XML, HTML, RSS or etc.
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