XPath Kick Start provides the fastest path to productivity with XPath, and is fully up to date with the most recent XPath specification. Award-winning author Steven Holzner speeds through the basics so you'll be an XPath expert in no time. You'll master the XPath syntax and data model and understand the features of XPath 2.0, including new operators, expressions, and functions. XPath Kick Start shows you XPath at work in XML applications including XSLT and XLink. You'll quickly leverage your skills to manage data in XML-enabled applications, and extend XPath with allied specifications like XQuery. Steven Holzner's expert insights and tips, along with dozens of practical examples that you can put to use immediately, will have you up and running at full speed in nothing flat.
Steven Holzner has been writing about XML topics like XPath as long as XML has been around. He's written several XML bestsellers, and his books have been translated into 16 languages around the world. He's been on the faculty of both Cornell University and MIT, and teaches corporate programming classes around the country. Dr. Holzner has written over 80 computer books and has been a contributing editor of PC Magazine.