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"Barnowsky, Greg T." wrote: > If I am currently parsing through a well-formed and validated XML > document based on prior knowledge of it's schema using > the Microsoft MSXML Component Model API and my favorite prog. language, > what does the support of XPath provide me? Xpath support gives you a very much more productive way of navigating and querying the XML document compared to "pure" DOM, eg the DOM getAttribute() and getElementsByTagName() methods and the childNodes property for element / attribute operations; and the DOM normalize() method and Text interface for text values. MSXML already had workrounds for these areas, but these were experimental and used now-outdated proto-standards. The advantage to using XPath is that you will be using the same powerful and well-reviewed standard as other useful XML tools such as XSLT or the Schematron. > > I am currently processing the XML Document with no intentions to display > the information. That is, this processing is > oriented to backoffice B2B operations, e.g. mappings, translations, > auditing, etc. not presentation on a Web Page. > > Maybe I just have missed something in the spec, or am not familiar with the > quirks of XML to see if XPath for me provides any > benefit. > XPath is also included in XSLT, but you don't need to be doing XSLT document transformations to exploit the power of XPath. (In fact I have found XSLT very useful for B2B work, you may well want to look at it for your translations.) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Unsubscribe by posting to majordom@i... the message unsubscribe xml-dev (or) unsubscribe xml-dev your-subscribed-email@your-subscribed-address Please note: New list subscriptions now closed in preparation for transfer to OASIS.
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