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Glossary

Anchoring (XPath)

Definition

How a highlighter remembers where a passage sits in a page so it can re-mark it later. Vite Research stores the selected text and its position in the page structure; if a site rewrites its page, an anchor can fail, which is why the Library keeps a snapshot too.

Related terms

Web annotationWeb snapshot

Journal data: OpenAlex (CC0) and DOAJ (CC0). Feed URLs belong to their publishers; arXiv feeds per arXiv terms of use. Nothing from the feeds is stored on this site: the latest articles load live from the publisher. OpenAlex · DOAJ · arXiv