| XPath Kick Start provides the fastest path to productivity with XPath, and is fully up to date with the most recent XPath specification. Award-winning author Steven Holzner speeds through the basics so you'll be an XPath expert in no time. You'll master the XPath syntax and data model and understand the features of XPath 2.0, including new operators, expressions, and functions.
XPath Kick Start shows you XPath at work in XML applications including XSLT and XLink. You'll quickly leverage your skills to manage data in XML-enabled applications, and extend XPath with allied specifications like XQuery. Steven Holzner's expert insights and tips, along with dozens of practical examples that you can put to use immediately, will have you up and running at full speed in nothing flat.
Welcome to XPath, the XML-related specification that lets you locate data in XML documents. XPath is becoming more and more important as XML develops, and there's more need to work with the data in XML documents in detailed ways.
In this book, we're going to examine both XPath 1.0 and 2.0 to see what makes them tick, and we're going to emphasize seeing everything at work in dozens of examples.
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