On Jan 9, 2017, at 12:17 PM, Ashley M. Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> have to go from my starting position, get me all descendants that match the > next thing I specify". So you can use a slightly more explicit XPath to find > what you need: > > `//teiHeader//author` -> "Go to <teiHeader>, then get all its descendant > <author>s" > `//text//author` -> "Go to <text>, then get all its descendant <author>s" > > To get counts in pure XPath (you'll have to check if your parser can handle > functions like this), you can use the count function: > > `count(//teiHeader//author)` -> "Get a count of the results for > `//teiHeader//author`" > > -- > Ashley M. Clark > XML Applications Developer > Digital Scholarship Group > Northeastern University Libraries > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > (617) 373-5983 Resolved. This works perfectly. Thank you very much. —ELM
