XPath

XPath
ParadigmQuery language
DeveloperW3C
First appeared1998
Stable release
3.1 / March 21, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-03-21)
Influenced by
XSLT, XPointer
Influenced
XML Schema, XForms, JSONPath

XPath (XML Path Language) is an expression language designed to support the query or transformation of XML documents. It was defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1999,[1] and can be used to compute values (e.g., strings, numbers, or Boolean values) from the content of an XML document. Support for XPath exists in applications that support XML, such as web browsers, and many programming languages.

  1. ^ "XML and Semantic Web W3C Standards Timeline" (PDF). 2012-02-04.