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∟XPath (XML Path) Language

∟Evaluation Context

This section provides a quick introduction of evaluation context: current node, current position, number of nodes of the current node set, and current variables.

XPath expressions are always evaluated with respect to a context, which consists of:

The context node is referring to the current node in the source XML structure, which is represented as a tree of different types of nodes according to the Document Object Model (DOM):

For more details, tutorial notes on DOM in other chapters of this book.

Last update: 2014.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of XML (eXtensible Markup Language)

 XML File Syntax

 XML File Browsers

 DOM (Document Object Model) Programming Interface

 SAX (Simple API for XML) Programming Interface

 DTD (Document Type Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of DTD Statements

 Validating an XML Document against the Specified DTD Document Type

 XSD (XML Schema Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of XSD Statements

 Validating XML Documents Against Specified XML Schemas

 XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) Introduction

 XSLT (XSL Transformations) Introduction

 Java Implementation of XSLT

►XPath (XML Path) Language

 What is XPath (XML Path)?

 Data Types, Literals and Variables

►Evaluation Context

 Built-in Functions

 Expressions and Location Paths

 Using XPath in XSLT Templates

 XSLT Elements as Programming Statements

 Control and Generate XML Element in the Result

 XML Notepad - XML Editor

 XML Tools Plugin for Notepad++

 XML 1.1 Changes and Parsing Examples

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

 PDF Printing Version