Introduction & Background
- XPath became a separate specification from XSLT to "harmonize" XSL
Patterns and XPointer(s) - resulting in XPath 1.0: March, 1999
- W3C Recommendations November, 1999
- XPath & XSLT Developed with focus on well-formed XML
- XSL WG rechartered to deliver V2 of XPath/XSLT July, 2000
- Requirements for Version 2 focused on typing and support for the W3C
schema language