Chapter 6. XPath: A Basic Building Block
The XML Security standards need a data model for and means of expressing operations on XML, particularly extraction of subdocuments. This need could entail modeling parsed XML and sending input to an application from an external encoding or XML that an application constructs internally and has not yet output.
For example, an XML document might represent a user form. Assume that a user fills in several fields that XML elements represent and then wants to digitally sign those fields. As Chapter 10 describes in detail, the signature object needs some method of specifying or pointing to these fields. XPath provides the necessary data model and method.
It might seem that meeting this goal would be easy because ... |
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