Evaluating XPath Queries on DOM Objects 

Use

The XPath 1.0 recommendation (available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath) stated: “XPath is the result of an effort to provide a common syntax and semantics for functionality shared between XSL Transformations [XSLT] and XPointer [XPointer].” This confines XPath to a very specific area of use. It has become obvious, though, that XPath could be useful for a wider area of purposes, including DOM. This problem has been addressed to by W3C in the DOM level3 XPath Specification (available at http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20011031/.) The functionality described in this document is implemented in the SAP XML Toolkit for Java – it provides you with the opportunity to create XPath queries and evaluate them with respect to different context.