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XPath 2.0

- currently a Working Draft, developed to capture the common subset of XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0

Major changes from 1.0:

  • now using XML Schema primitive types instead of the four in 1.0
    • new type operators: cast, treat, assert, instance of

  • now using sequences instead of node-sets
    • also allow non-node types
    • new operators: for, if, some, every, intersect, except

  • many(!) new functions
    • regular expression match/replace/tokenize
    • date formats
    • ...

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