Question

I want to count the total number of specific nodes between root node and current node.
for Example:

 <w:body> <!-- root Node -->
     <w:p/>
             <w:rect>
             <w:p>some text1</w:p>  
            </w:rect>
     <w:p/>
             <w:rect>
              <w:p>some text2</w:p>  
            </w:rect>

     <w:p/>
     <w:p/>
     <w:p/>
            <w:rect>
             <w:p>some text5</w:p>   <!-- This is current node now -->
            </w:rect>
     <w:p/>
     <w:p/>
     <w:p/>
     <w:p/>
</w:body>

This is my scenario.Here, Assume some text is my current node.So, Now i want to get the parent::w:p of the current node (Assume this node name as “targetNode”). After that i want to calculate total number of the same level of w:p from root node to targetNode.

My wanted output is :5

Please Guide me to get out of this issue…

Answer 1

What about this single XPath expression:

 count(ancestor::w:p[1]/preceding-sibling::w:p + 1)

In this way we obtain the count of all preceding sibling w:p nodes of the first ancestor w:p + 1 (the first ancestor w:p itself).