THE XML REVOLUTION - TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

XPath 2.0

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