XPath query to get nth instance of an element XPath query to get nth instance of an element xml xml

XPath query to get nth instance of an element


xml xpath

This is a FAQ:

//somexpression[$N]

means "Find every node selected by //somexpression that is the $Nth child of its parent".

What you want is:

(//input[@id="search_query"])[2]

Remember: The [] operator has higher precedence (priority) than the // abbreviation.

xml xpath

This seems to work:

/descendant::input[@id="search_query"][2]

I go this from "XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference, 4th Edition" by Michael Kay.

There is also a note in the "Abbreviated Syntax" section of the XML Path Language specification http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#path-abbrev that provided a clue.

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