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XPath and XML

Stefan Tilkov,

Aristotle Pagaltzis has written a very nice and concise XPath intro. Of all the various standards in the XML ecosystem, I like XPath best, most of all because it enables interaction with an XML document or message in a way that matches Postel’s law: It’s a great way to implement code that doesn’t break each time a minor change is made to an XML format. In fact I’d say it’s one the few very good reasons to stick with XML instead of adopting JSON – even though there are things like JSONPath, they don’t have the tool support and standardization you get from XPath.