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Asked: 2026-05-26T05:43:17+00:00

I am trying to read a file that is set up as follows: <file>

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I am trying to read a file that is set up as follows:

<file>
  <name>My name</name>
  <size>My size</size>
  <relatedfiles>
    <relatedfile>My related file 1</relatedfile>
    <relatedfile>My related file 2</relatedfile>
    <relatedfile>My related file 3</relatedfile>
  </relatedfiles>
</file>

To get the name/size fields, I am using the XPath expression

"file/name"

and

 "/size"

which has worked so far.

Now, I want to read the related files, one related file at a time. I have looked into getting the first as

/relatedfiles/relatedfile

which gets me to the first related file, but I don’t know how to get to the next single one (I have seen examples including following-sibling, but the tutorials state that it returns ALL siblings, and I only want to work one at a time)…

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  1. Editorial Team

    /relatedfiles/relatedfile[<index>] will get you specific nodes. Note though that XPath indexes from 1.

    EDIT

    Ok I should have caught this and I’m sorry that I posted what I had done above.

    The correct path should have been
    //relatedfiles/relatedfile[<index>]

    That says, regardless of context, look through all nodes and locate anything that starts with relatedfiles find sub nodes related file, get me the indexed element.

    You could easily have written this as //relatedfiles[<index>] as well

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