Re: Getting first occurrence of XML elements

If your structure is built in the same way as above, this XPath works fine:

var _root = app.activeDocument.xmlElements.firstItem();

var _firstXrefID001andID002 = _root.evaluateXPathExpression("//p[position()=1]/xref[@rid='id001']|/ /p[position()=2]/xref[@rid='id002']");

app.select(_firstXrefID001andID002);

If other positions of are possible, e.g.

<DOCUMENT>

<CN>1</CN>

<CT>Title</CT>

<p1>Sample Text Sample Text Sample Text Sample Text Sample Text Sample Text</p1>

Sample Text Sample Text Sample Text <xref rid="id001" ref-type="Test"/> Sample Text Sample Text Sample Text

Sample Text Sample Text <xref rid="id002" ref-type="Test"/> Sample Text Sample Text Sample Text Sample Text

Sample Text Sample Text <xref rid="id001" ref-type="Test"/> Sample Text Sample Text Sample Text Sample Text

Sample Text Sample Text <xref rid="id002" ref-type="Test"/> Sample Text Sample Text Sample Text Sample Text

</DOCUMENT>

You can try these XPathsExpressions and take the first element of resulting Arrays:

var _root = app.activeDocument.xmlElements.firstItem();

var _firstXrefID001 = _root.evaluateXPathExpression("//p/xref[@rid='id001']");

app.select(_firstXrefID001[0]);

var _firstXrefID002 = _root.evaluateXPathExpression("//p/xref[@rid='id002']");

app.select(_firstXrefID002[0]);

Roland