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Asked: May 16, 20262026-05-16T21:45:04+00:00 2026-05-16T21:45:04+00:00

I want to use xpath to count occurances of certain node in xml document.

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I want to use xpath to count occurances of certain node in xml document. What would I use? For ex: If I wanted to get second occurance of movie node I’d use movie[2].

How do I get total number of movie node occurances in document?

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    2026-05-16T21:45:05+00:00Added an answer on May 16, 2026 at 9:45 pm

    I want to use xpath to count occurances of certain node in xml document

    Use the count function.

    The count function returns the number of nodes in the argument node-set

    For your case, use this XPath expression:

    count(//movie)
    
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