Forum OpenACS Q&A: xml and xpath

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1: xml and xpath
Posted by Rajakumar kumar on 06/14/05 08:11 AM
what is the diff between xml and xpath?
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2: Re: xml and xpath (response to 1)
Posted by Guan Yang on 06/14/05 08:20 AM
XML is a document format. XML documents have lots of angle brackets and can be very long. An XML document forms a tree of so-called "elements".

XPath is a language for matching specific elements (or nodes, which are a more general concept that includes attributes, text, etc.) An XPath statement is usually in a single line and contains lots of forward slashes (/).