<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <!-- Generated: Mon Feb 23 16:43:26 EST 2004 jfouffa.w3.org --> <html lang='en-US'> <head> <title>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification</title> <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='./spec.css'> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='W3C-WG-NOTE.css'> <link rel='next' href='expanded-toc.html'> <link rel='contents' href='Overview.html#contents'> <link rel='copyright' href='copyright-notice.html'> <link rel='glossary' href='glossary.html'> <link rel='Start' href='Overview.html'> <link rel='index' href='def-index.html'> <link rel='author' href='mailto:www-dom@w3.org'> <link rel='help' href='http://www.w3.org/DOM/'> </head> <body> <div class='navbar' style='text-align: center'> <map id='navbar-top' name='navbar-top' title='Navigation Bar'><p> [<a title='Expanded Table of Contents' accesskey='n' href='expanded-toc.html'><strong><u>n</u></strong>ext</a>] [<a title='Table of Contents' accesskey='c' href='Overview.html#contents'><strong><u>c</u></strong>ontents</a>] [<a title='Index' accesskey='i' href='def-index.html'><strong><u>i</u></strong>ndex</a>]</p> <hr title='Navigation area separator'> </map></div> <div class='head'> <p><a href='http://www.w3.org/'> <img height='48' width='72' alt='W3C' src='./images/w3c_home.gif'></a></p> <h1 id='title'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification</h1> <h2 id='version'>Version 1.0</h2> <!-- NOTE-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20040226 --> <h2 id='W3C-doctype'>W3C Working Group Note 26 February 2004</h2> <dl><dt>This version:</dt> <dd><a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20040226'>http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20040226</a></dd><dt>Latest version:</dt> <dd><a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-XPath'>http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-XPath</a></dd> <dt>Previous version:</dt> <dd><a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20030331'>http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20030331</a></dd> </dl> <dl><dt>Editor: </dt><dd>Ray Whitmer, <i>Netscape/AOL, then Invited Expert</i></dd> </dl> <p>This document is also available in these non-normative formats: <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20040226/xml-source.xml'>XML file</a>, <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20040226/DOM3-XPath.txt'>plain text</a>, <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20040226/DOM3-XPath.ps'>PostScript file</a>, <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20040226/DOM3-XPath.pdf'>PDF file</a>, <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20040226/DOM3-XPath.html'>single HTML file</a>, and <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20040226/DOM3-XPath.zip'>ZIP file</a>.</p> <p class='copyright'><a href='http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright'> Copyright</a> ©2004 <a href='http://www.w3.org/'><abbr title='World Wide Web Consortium'>W3C</abbr></a><sup>®</sup> (<a href='http://www.csail.mit.edu/'><abbr title='Massachusetts Institute of Technology'>MIT</abbr></a>, <a href='http://www.ercim.org/'><abbr title='European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics'>ERCIM</abbr></a>, <a href='http://www.keio.ac.jp/'>Keio</a>), All Rights Reserved. W3C <a href='http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Legal_Disclaimer'>liability</a>, <a href='http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#W3C_Trademarks'>trademark</a>, <a href='http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-documents'>document use</a> and <a href='http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software'>software licensing</a> rules apply.</p> </div> <hr title='separator from header'> <h2 id='abstract'>Abstract</h2> <div class='abstract'> <p>This specification defines the Document Object Model Level 3 XPath. It provides simple functionalities to access a DOM tree using [<a class='noxref' href='references.html#XPath10'>XPath 1.0</a>].</p></div> <h2 id='status'>Status of this document</h2> <div class='status'> <p> <em>This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/'>W3C technical reports index</a> at http://www.w3.org/TR/.</em> </p><p> This is a <a href='http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process-20010719/tr.html#RecsCR'>Working Group Note</a> of "DOM Level 3 XPath" and is based on the <a href='http://www.w3.org/2002/03/DOM-Level-3-XPath-issues'>feedback received</a> during the Last Call period. The W3C DOM Working Group participants do not expect to provide two interoperable implementations of this module, <em>using the same binding</em>. Implementation feedbacks are however welcome and have to be sent to the public mailing list <a href='mailto:www-dom@w3.org'>www-dom@w3.org</a> (public <a href='http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/'>archive</a>). Other W3C Working Groups may continue the work and provide implementations of this document. </p><p> Individuals or organizations are also invited to send a message to the public mailing list if they intend to produce an implementation of this module. </p><p> Publication as a Working Group Note does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. </p><p> This document has been produced as part of the <a href='http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity.html'>W3C DOM Activity</a>. The authors of this document are the DOM Working Group members. </p><p> An <a href='http://www.w3.org/2003/02/19-dom-xpath-implementation.html'>implementation report</a> is also available. </p><p> Patent disclosures relevant to this specification may be found on the Working Group's <a href='http://www.w3.org/2002/08/02-DOM-Disclosures.html'>patent disclosure page</a>. </p></div> <h2 id='table-of-contents'><a name='contents'>Table of contents</a></h2> <ul class='toc'> <li class='tocline2'><a class='tocxref' href='expanded-toc.html'>Expanded Table of Contents</a></li> <li class='tocline2'><a class='tocxref' href='copyright-notice.html'>W3C Copyright Notices and Licenses</a></li> </ul> <ul class='toc'> <li class='tocline2'><a class='tocxref' href='xpath.html'>1. Document Object Model XPath</a></li> </ul> <ul class='toc'> <li class='tocline2'><a class='tocxref' href='idl-definitions.html'>Appendix A: IDL Definitions</a></li> <li class='tocline2'><a class='tocxref' href='java-binding.html'>Appendix B: Java Language Binding</a></li> <li class='tocline2'><a class='tocxref' href='ecma-script-binding.html'>Appendix C: ECMAScript Language Binding</a></li> <li class='tocline2'><a class='tocxref' href='acknowledgements.html'>Appendix D: Acknowledgements</a></li> <li class='tocline2'><a class='tocxref' href='glossary.html'>Glossary</a></li> <li class='tocline2'><a class='tocxref' href='references.html'>References</a></li> <li class='tocline2'><a class='tocxref' href='def-index.html'>Index</a></li> </ul> <div class='navbar' style='text-align: center'> <map id='navbar-bottom' name='navbar-bottom' title='Navigation Bar'><hr title='Navigation area separator'><p> [<a title='Expanded Table of Contents' href='expanded-toc.html'><strong><u>n</u></strong>ext</a>] [<a title='Table of Contents' href='Overview.html#contents'><strong><u>c</u></strong>ontents</a>] [<a title='Index' href='def-index.html'><strong><u>i</u></strong>ndex</a>]</p> </map></div> </body> </html>