XPath node

XPath is a language for finding information in XML documents.

XPath node syntax

In XPath, there are seven types of nodes: element, attribute, text, namespace, processing directive, comment, and document (root) node. XML documents are treated as nodes trees. The root of the tree is called the document node or root node.

XPath node example

    J K. Rowling 2005 29.99  

Example of nodes in the above XML document:

 (document node) J K. Rowling (element node) lang="en" (attribute node)