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Posted: **Mon Dec 23, 2019 2:29 pm**

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

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

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

Sincerely,
Dmitry

Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2019 11:17 am**

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

Posted: **Tue Dec 31, 2019 10:08 am**

Thank you, Alex!

Sincerely,
Dmitry

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