Pathan 1

The Pathan project grew out of DecisionSoft's work on XMLScript , an XML transformation language.

XPath was adopted as a node selection language by XMLScript when the XPath specification was ratified by the W3C. DecisionSoft's XMLScript processor is based on Xerces-C, a Document Object Model compliant XML parser. Pathan therefore was designed from the base up to be fully compatible with the Xerces parser.

Pathan 1 represents the open sourcing of the XPath component of DecisionSoft's XMLScript processor. Pathan 1 features a full implementation of the XPath 1.0 Specification. Pathan 1 implements the W3C DOM Level 3 XPath Specification (Working Draft February 08 2002) providing a powerful and coherent interface between XPath and DOM and hence a standardised interface with Xerces.

Pathan is provided to the community as we feel that the Pathan module increases the scope and usefulness of the Xerces-C library and will be an aid to other XML developers in their projects.