Using XPath with bookmap metadata

[DmitryS]

Hi!
Please help me to return the value of bookmeta/bookrights/copyrlast/year.
Expression

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//*[contains(@class, "bookmap/year")]/text() 

returns two values, from <copyrfirst> and <copyrlast>.

Sincerely,
Dmitry

[alex_jitianu]

Hi Dmitry,

That's because both copyrlast and copyrfirst have a year element in them, and your XPath takes all the year elements from anywhere in the document. Just restrict the expression to the year from withing copyrlast, like this:

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//*[contains(@class, "bookmap/copyrlast")]/*[contains(@class, "bookmap/year")]/text() 

Best regards,
Alex

[DmitryS]

Thank you, Alex!

Sincerely,
Dmitry