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Hi Eric, In XPath, each `/` says to go down the XML tree hierarchy once, and a double slash (`//`) says "I don't care how far down I 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`" Hope this helps! Best, Ashley -- Ashley M. Clark XML Applications Developer Digital Scholarship Group Northeastern University Libraries [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> (617) 373-5983 On 1/9/17 11:55 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > I have an XPath question, and more specifically, how can I determine the number of author elements found an a TEI header? > > I would like to create summary files similar to the files created by the late Sebastian Rantz and found on GitHub. [1] I can easily determine the number of author elements found in an entire TEI file with a Perl-esque XPath statement similar to this: > > $parser->find( “//author" )->size > > But I’d like to know how to limit the finding of author elements to only the teiheader or text elements. > > [1] see, for example - https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/A00002 > > — > Eric Morgan