Beware of the context in XPATH
I work a lot with XPATH (but i am not an expert yet), during my work i came across a very non intuitive situation for, the thing i wanted to do is to return the first item out of all the children in the document so i used [1] and apparently i got more than one results.
Consider the following XML:
Lets say i want to get the first Book on the entire document, i used the following XPATH and it gave me the following output (2 items)
Apparently i needed to take in mind the context that Book can be found under and do the following
So although i understand the solution, this was not the intuitive one,…. (watch it)
Beware of the context in XPATH
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