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This manual is a printed edition of the XPath 2.0 standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in easy-to-read paperback format. This edition contains the W3C Recommendation of 23 January 2007 (the current standard as of the publication date, July 2010).

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Table of Contents

1. Publisher's Preface
2. Notes for this printed edition
3. Introduction
4. Basics
5. Expressions
6. XPath Grammar
7. Type Promotion and Operator Mapping
8. Context Components
9. Implementation-Defined Items
10. References
11. Conformance
12. Error Conditions
13. Glossary (Non-Normative)
14. Backwards Compatibility with XPath 1.0 (Non-Normative)
15. Revision Log (Non-Normative)
16. Index

Resources

• XPath 2.0 Specification - normative electronic version of the standard at W3C