XPath 2 . 0 XPath 2.0 is a language for addressing portions of XML documents , designed by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) . It is the successor of the W3C recommendation XPath 1.0 . XPath 2.0 currently owns candidate recommendation status , but its main parts are stable . It is much more complex , voluminous and powerful than its predecessor . It is part of the specifications of XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 . External links XPath 2.0 ( W3C Candidate Recommendation ) XQuery 1.0 ( W3C Candidate Recommendation ) XSLT 2.0 ( W3C Candidate Recommendation ) This computer language -related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it . Categories : Computer language stubs | W3C standards | XML-based standards | Query languages 