Match Patterns (Locating Elements)
Match Patterns (Locating Elements) One critical capability of a stylesheet language is to locate source elements to be styled. CSS, for example, does this with “selectors.” FOSIs do it with “e-i-c’s”, elements in context. XSLT does it with “match patterns” defined by the XML Path Language (XPath). XPath has an extensible string-based syntax. It describes “location paths” between parts of a document or …