XPath Language Tokens(jaxen)

What are XPath language tokens?
For example how jaxen (or SaxPath,I think jaxen makes
use of SaxPath) tokenizes XPath expressions ?
For example:
how the query 
/ExtrinsicObject[./OrganizationRef[(_at_)uri='/Organization/Acme']]
is executed?

Thanks in advance.

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