Java XPATH select only the first element of child

Question

My sample input XML is:

<root>
    <a>
    <b>
    <c>item1</c>
    <d>item2</d>
    <e>item3</e> 
    </b>
    </a>
    <a>
    <b>
    <c>item4</c>
    <c>item5</c>
    <e>item6</e>   
    </b>        
    </a>
    </root>

I am suppose to select all the first occurrence of node c. The output should be item1 and item4. when I am using /root/a/b/c it returns item1,item4 and item5.

Try /root/a/b/c[0]. Otherwise show some more of what you're trying (e.g. code). — Thomas
Possible duplicate of What is the XPath expression to find only the first occurrence? — Koche
stackoverflow.com/questions/14294997/… here only the first element is selected.I want to select all the first occurrence of node c. — ranjit singh

Incepter Incepter · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-10T10:54:25

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votes

I used this for your example //root//c[1] and it's working as you expect.

Java XPATH select only the first element of child

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