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* Think of XML as a tree | * Think of XML as a tree | ||
* Expressions in XPath as navigations down/across the tree with conditions | * Expressions in XPath as navigations down/across the tree with conditions | ||
| + | * / - root element + separator, Element name, * is wildcard, @ for attribute | ||
| + | * // - any descendant of the current element including self | ||
| + | * condition in square bracket. [price < 50]. Also [] used as array access. | ||
| + | * Many built-in functions : e.g. contains(s1, s2) : true/false. name() : returns element tag name | ||
| + | * Navigation axes : e.g. parent, following-sibling, descendants | ||
| + | * XPath queries operate on and return sequence of elements for XML document & XML stream | ||
| + | * Sometimes result of XPath query can be expressed in XML, but not always | ||
Revision as of 06:56, 5 February 2014
Intro
- Not as mature as querying relational databases
- No underlying algebra
- XPath : Path expressions and conditions
- XSLT : XPath + Transformations, output processing
- XQuery : XPath + full featured query language
- XLink, XPointer : Use XPath as a component
XPath
- Think of XML as a tree
- Expressions in XPath as navigations down/across the tree with conditions
- / - root element + separator, Element name, * is wildcard, @ for attribute
- // - any descendant of the current element including self
- condition in square bracket. [price < 50]. Also [] used as array access.
- Many built-in functions : e.g. contains(s1, s2) : true/false. name() : returns element tag name
- Navigation axes : e.g. parent, following-sibling, descendants
- XPath queries operate on and return sequence of elements for XML document & XML stream
- Sometimes result of XPath query can be expressed in XML, but not always
