Can someone help me understand what exactly is the diffrence between SQL/XML and XPath? Are they same?
vijju23 0 Newbie Poster
xml_looser 3 Junior Poster
xml describes with nodes (tag) dates
<root>
<item>Data1</item>
<item>Data2</item>
</root>with xpath one can describe where the dates
to look are
example found the second item
<xsl:value-of select="item[2]">look here
bigtiny 0 Newbie Poster
Can someone help me understand what exactly is the diffrence between SQL/XML and XPath? Are they same?
SQL (Structured Query Language) is a standardized language for querying and working with Databases and their constituent data.
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a language for structuring data in a generic way like:
<Employee>
<Name>
<Firstname> Robert </Firstname>
<Lastname> Jones </Lastname>
</Name>
<Address>
<Street>43 Johnson Road </Street>
<City> Lincoln </City>
<State> Nebraska </State>
<Zip> 28374 </Zip>
</Address>
</Employee>
XPATH is a tool for finding the location of an element in a bunch of XML or HTML.
bigtiny
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