Question

Take a look at the sample XML below–

<div id="main">
    <div id="1">
        Some random text
    </div>
    <div id="2">
        Some random text
    </div>
    <div id="3">
        Some random text
    </div>
    <p> Some more random text</p>
    <div id="4">
        Some random text
    </div>
</div>

Now, how do I find out the number of divs within the main div using Xquery? And how to do this in XPath?

Answer 1

You can use the following XPath:

count(div[@id="main"]/div)

The function count does the counting, the main div is selected by its id.