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I think you're referring to XSL. The heavy lifting is done by the transformation language (XSLT), but XPath is definitely an underlying tool.
by pestaa 6y ago
I think you're referring to XSL. The heavy lifting is done by the transformation language (XSLT), but XPath is definitely an underlying tool.
- klibertp 6y agoI may be wrong, as it's been some time since I worked with them, but I think XPath is both its own standard, and a part of XSL at the same time. A lot of XSLT deals with selecting nodes from the source and it happens with XPath expressions.
- masklinn 6y agoW3C standards usually depend on and leverage other standards, so XPath is its own standard, which is used by XSLT (and XQuery, and possibly a few other things). You can't use XSLT without XPath, but you can use XPath on its own.