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Miscellaneous on XPath
- Formally, XPath is a separate W3C recommendation
- This allows its reuse in non-XSLT purposes:
- In Digital Signatures, to specify subtree being signed
- In XPointer, to enrich the URL "fragment" possibilities
- etc
- All this was XPath 1.0; work is being done on XPath 2.0:
- handling XML Schema datatypes
- more than 100(!) functions, instead of around 30
- regular expressions, better string management, ...
- better handling of namespaces, ...
- typed data, eg, integers, floats, etc
- developed with the XML Query working group
| Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices | 16 July, 2002 | 31 (32) |