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title: "Define XPATH?"  
description: "Define XPATH?"  
author: "Vijay Shukla"  
published: 2013-04-02  
updated: 2020-09-19  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1702/define-xpath  
category: "xml"  
tags: ["xml"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Define XPATH?

A query language used to identify a set of nodes inside a XML document. Originally defined to be used with XSLT, it is also used by XPointer and a simple subset is used in the xs:key, xs:keyref, and xs:unique W3C XML Schema elements. The XQuery specification will be a superset of the second version of XPath. This version will use type information provided by W3C XML Schema.

## Answers

### Answer by Vijay Shukla

A query language used to identify a set of nodes inside a XML document. Originally defined to be used with XSLT, it is also used by XPointer and a simple subset is used in the xs:key, xs:keyref, and xs:unique W3C XML Schema elements. The XQuery specification will be a superset of the second version of XPath. This version will use type information provided by W3C XML Schema.


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