XPath JXPath Jaxen JavaScript aka ECMAscript http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/ Java Expression Library http://galaxy.fzu.cz/JEL/ PAX http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom-xpath/2000May/att-0100/01-xpathapi1.html Ptolemy II http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~eal/ee225a/lab/expression.pdf SPEL http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/jsptl-doc/jsptl-ea1/spel/