> XPath is not often used by itself.  Using XQuery or XSLT would provide
> constructs such as user-defined functions, variable bindings and/or
> recursion on top of XPath, to ease the task.  Are either of these an
> option?
>
> -Brandon :)

Yes, all these are good options. I am quite new to both XQuery and
XSLT. Could you please point me to where I could start to understand
the differences? How do these do variable bindings?

Thanks a bunch.
Regards,
Vineet