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Hi aquasw,<br />
&gt;&nbsp;string(/bookstore/book/tit<wbr />le[@lang=&quot;<wbr />eng&quot;])<br />
<br />
use<br />
string(/bookstore/book/tit<wbr />le[@lang=&quot;<wbr />eng&quot;][1])<br />
<br />
<br />
Cheers!
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Hi aquasw,
> string(/bookstore/book/title[@lang="eng"])

use
string(/bookstore/book/title[@lang="eng"][1])


Cheers!

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I used this option, but get the error message &quot;Too many items - string&quot; 
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I used this option, but get the error message "Too many items - string"

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I'm using xpath to analyze xml file.<br />
<br />
this is my xml:<br />
<br />
&lt;bookstore&gt;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;book&gt;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;title lang=&quot;eng&quot;&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/title&gt;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;price&gt;29.99&lt;/price&gt;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/book&gt;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;book&gt;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;title lang=&quot;eng&quot;&gt;Learning XML&lt;/title&gt;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;price&gt;39.95&lt;/price&gt;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;/book&gt;<br />
&lt;/bookstore&gt;<br />
<br />
<br />
I use the following xpath:<br />
string(/bookstore/book/tit<wbr />le[@lang=&quot;<wbr />eng&quot;])<br />
<br />
it fails becouse I have more then one node of that type. How do I ask for the first node?<br />
Thanks.
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I'm using xpath to analyze xml file.

this is my xml:

<bookstore>
	<book>
		<title lang="eng">Harry Potter</title>
		<price>29.99</price>
	</book>
	<book>
		<title lang="eng">Learning XML</title>
		<price>39.95</price>
	</book>
</bookstore>


I use the following xpath:
string(/bookstore/book/title[@lang="eng"])

it fails becouse I have more then one node of that type. How do I ask for the first node?
Thanks.

XPath first node

Extensible Markup Language (XML) refers to the encoding of documents such that they can be read by both machines and humans. XML documents use tags to show the beginning and end of a set of data. XML is used extensively on websites to show volumes of data, and is the default for a number of office productivity suites. This topic includes discussions of XML-related technologies, such as XQuery (the XML Query language), XPath (the XML Path language), XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), XLink (the XML Linking language) and XPointer (the XML Pointer language).