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Warning: XPath is Still Not a Programming Language!

(Although XPath 2.0 is a whole lot closer!)

• XPath is
  • not complete for use by itself
  • designed to be embedded in a host language
• XPath 2.0 is used with XSLT 2.0
• XQuery 1.0 is an extension /generalization of XPath 2.0
  • Based on the same (XML Schema-based) data model