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
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