• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
  • About the XPath Processor
    • Where You Can Specify Queries
    • About XPath
    • Benefits of XPath
    • Internationalization
    • Restrictions on Queries
  • Sample Data for Examples and Testing
  • Getting Started with Queries
  • Specifying the Nodes to Evaluate
  • Handling Strings and Text
  • Specifying Boolean Expressions and Functions
  • Specifying Number Operations and Functions
  • Comparing Values
  • Finding a Particular Node
  • Obtaining a Union
  • Obtaining Information About a Node or a Node Set
  • Using XPath Expressions in Stylesheets
  • Accessing Other Documents During Query Execution
  • XPath Quick Reference
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Accessing Relational Data as XML
• Chapter 13: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 14: Stylus Studio Reference

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About the XPath Processor

The XML editor in Stylus Studio supports both the W3C XPath 1.0 Recommendation and the W3C XPath 2.0 Working Draft of November 2003. By default, Stylus Studio uses its XPath 1.0 processing engine. You can select the XPath 2.0 processing engine by clicking the v.2 icon ( )in the XML editor tool bar.

As an overview of the XPath processor, this section provides the following information:

For additional information about XPath see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath and http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20 .