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Asked: 2026-06-01T16:09:26+00:00

I am trying to use XPath count function to determine how many elements are

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I am trying to use XPath count function to determine how many elements are returned by following query

doc("courses.xml")
count(//Course[contains(Description,"Cross-listed")])

The following code returns 2 course elements

 doc("courses.xml")
//Course[contains(Description,"Cross-listed")]

but when I try to use the count function as above to return “2” I get the following error.

Error on line 2 column 1 of tmpDfWgJ7.xq:
XPST0003 XQuery syntax error in #doc(“courses.xml”)
count(//#:
Unexpected token “(” beyond end of query
Static error(s) in query

How can I correct this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    count(doc(“courses.xml”) //Course[contains(Description,”Cross-listed”)])

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