Back when the four of us were preparing for the
SharePoint 1, 2, 3! presentations,
Keith Rome showed the rest of us how
XPath worked in 30 seconds or less while I was working on a Windows SharePoint Services web services demo. Incidentally, this demo is now
online and available for download. But that's beside the point. The point of this post is that I, for a period of one day or so, knew what XPath was and how to actually use it. Of course, that was the last time I looked at it so that knowledge hasn't exactly stayed fresh. Namespaces, root elements - yeah, I know the terminology. I could explain it at a high level. But when someone asked me if I knew how to write an XPath query (and then told me to hold on while they finished something else) I figured I had better refresh my memory. Checking out the web, I found this great
tutorial online. Very short, sweet and to the point. I'm not sure I could learn the material from scratch out of this tutorial, but it's a great refresher.
-- Matt Ranlett