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XPath

Query language for selecting nodes from an XML document

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Also known as XML Path Language

Developer: World Wide Web Consortium
Founded: 1999
Latest version: 3.1
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1.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/
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1.w3.org/TR/xpath-20
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1.w3.org/TR/xpath-10
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Website: w3.org/TR/xpath

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XPath is an expression language designed to support the query or transformation of XML documents. It was defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1999, and can be used to compute values from the content of an XML document. Support for XPath exists in applications that support XML, such as web browsers, and many programming languages.

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Part of: XSLT
XQuery
XSL
Readable file format: XML
JSON(since 2017) latest version: 3.1
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1.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/
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ACM Classification Code (2012): 10003312
Has version, edition or translation: XPath 3

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