Read XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference, 4th Edition Online
Authors: Michael Kay
Summary
This chapter covered all the various kinds of expressions in the XPath language that are designed to manipulate general sequences, specifically:
Don't forget that these are not the only constructs available for manipulating sequences. For sequences of nodes, path expressions can be used, as well as the
union
,
intersect
, and
except
operators, as discussed in Chapter 9. And in Chapter 13 you will find descriptions of all the functions in the standard XPath library, including many functions that are useful for operating on sequences, for example,
count()
,
deep-equal()
,
distinct-values()
,
empty()
,
exists()
,
index-of()
,
insert-before()
,
remove()
,
subsequence()
, and
unordered()
.