Welcome to the XPATH tutorial home. From here you will be able to access all tutorials & learning material, examples, resources, tools and references related to XPATH expressions, XPATH functions and their individual use. At the end of this tutorial you should:
- Understand what XPATH is
- Specify XPATH expressions
- Perform basic calculations and selections using XPATH
- Use XPATH in simple programming tasks related to XML interrogation and manipulation
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XPATH Prerequisites
- Understand XML. Refer to the XML Tutorial for a crash course or quick review.
XPATH Examples
XPATH Functions
XPATH Books
XPATH Tools
Latest Additions
- Wildcards - XPATH allows the use of wildcards to write more robust path expressions where the use of specific path expressions is either impossible or undesirable.
- Path Expressions - XPATH path expressions are used to refer to specific nodes or values in an XML document.
- How to read an XML attribute value - There are a number of methods to read an XML attribute value. We present two common methods here: Locate and read an element value using the XML DOM; or Locate and read an element using XPATH expressions.