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Table 2 Seahawk data rule format: XPath expressions. XPath-based rule for creating a basic MOBY-S Gene Ontology record from a DOM data source, in this case an AGAVE XML document. The DOM context node for the XPath evaluation is determined by the application.

From: Seahawk: moving beyond HTML in Web-based bioinformatics analysis

<prefix value="agave">http://www.bioxml.info/dtd/agave.dtd</prefix>

<!-- Build a MOBY Object in the Gene Ontology namespace-->

<object>

   <!-- Find gene elements w/GO classification children-->

   <xpath>self::agave:gene//agave:classification [@system='GO']</xpath>

   <namespace>

      <!-- Find the ID attribute of the above xpath result-->

      <ns value="GO">./@id</ns>

   </namespace>

</object>