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On Jan 9, 2017, at 12:17 PM, Ashley M. Clark <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > have to go from my starting position, get me all descendants that match the next thing I specify". So you can use a slightly more explicit XPath to find what you need: > > `//teiHeader//author` -> "Go to <teiHeader>, then get all its descendant <author>s" > `//text//author` -> "Go to <text>, then get all its descendant <author>s" > > To get counts in pure XPath (you'll have to check if your parser can handle functions like this), you can use the count function: > > `count(//teiHeader//author)` -> "Get a count of the results for `//teiHeader//author`" > > -- > Ashley M. Clark > XML Applications Developer > Digital Scholarship Group > Northeastern University Libraries > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > (617) 373-5983 Resolved. This works perfectly. Thank you very much. —ELM