Searching and Transformation

• XPath http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath

  • Defines pattern-matching syntax used by XSLT and XPointer. Method for selecting data in a document. MSXML 3.0 supports XPath. Supercedes XPatterns./descendant-or-self::node()/child::name

• XSL

  • Includes transformative and FO formatting objects. FO will replace CSS for document formatting.

• XSLT http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt

  • Mechanism for encoding style rules, ensures consistent rendering of XML documents of the same type.

• XML Query http://www.w3.org/XML/Query

  • Response to limitations of XPath. Would bring database-style queries to XML documents.

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