[mimixco]

I thought XPath was pretty terrific for the day. It let you transform XML into a user interface in an entirely declarative way -- not just the appearance of items like CSS but the actual content could be inspected and altered. I built some cool things in XPath before frameworks like Angular took over.

[teddyh]

It sounds like you are talking about XSLT, not XPath.

[ygra]

Are you perhaps confusing XPath with XSLT (which uses XPath for selecting elements) here?

[mimixco]

Yes, I was! Thanks.

[ape4]

XPath is still a great way to reach into an xml file and grab a value