W3C Tutorial (9): W3C XPath Activities

XPath is a language used to select components of an XML document. XPath is designed for use with XSLT, XQuery and XPointer.

To learn more about XPath, read our XPath tutorial.

To learn more about XQuery, read our XQuery tutorial.

To learn more about XSLT, read our XSLT tutorial. XPath Version XPath 1.0

XPath 1.0 became the W3C recommended standard on November 16, 1999. XPath 2.0

XPath 2.0 became the W3C recommended standard on January 23, 2007.

XPath 2.0 is a language derived from XPath 1.0 and XQuery. The generation of XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 are homologous. They have many of the same syntax and many of the texts are also consistent. W3C XPath specifications and timelines specification Draft/Proposal recommend XPath 1.0 November 16, 1999 XPath 2.0 Requirements June 3, 2005 XPath 2.0 Language January 23, 2007 XPath 2.0 Functions January 23, 2007 XPath 2.0 Data Model January 23, 2007 XPath 2.0 Semantics January 23, 2007 XPointer August 16, 2002 W3C Reference

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