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XPath 2.0 Expression Typing

major difference between XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0

• XPath 1.0 had few types of expressions
  • string
  • boolean
  • number
  • nodeset
• XPath 2.0 may have
  • all the W3C XML Schema simple and complex types
  • types derived from the schema types
  • atomic values