emir burak scala.xml (draft book, updated for Scala 2.6.1) I. Semistructured Syntax and Data 1. Introduction XML, Types and Objects 2. The scala.xml API Nodes and Attributes Elements and Text Embedded expressions Other nodes Matching XML Updates and Queries Names and Namespaces Sharing namespace nodes 3. XPath projection 4. XSLT style transformations 5. XQuery style querying 6. Loading and Saving XML The native Scala parser Pull parsing (experimental) II. Library 7. Overview 8. scala.xml runtime classes 9. Scala's XML syntax, formally 10. Interpretation of XML expressions and patterns
XPath is used to navigate through elements and attributes in an XML document. XPath is a major element in W3C's XSLT standard - and XQuery and XPointer are both built on XPath expressions.
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