XPath Practice

1. How would you isolate the ID number of this encoded text (VAA4025-109-1-a16)?
• //div/@id


2. How many lists are in the article text?
• 1
• count(//div/list)


3. How would you isolate the copyright statement (Copyright 2013 Trustees of Indiana University)?
• //publicationStmt/availability/p[contains(., "Copyright")]


4. What are two different ways to isolate the publisher and pubPlace elements together (Indiana University Libraries Bloomington, IN)?
1. /TEI.2/teiHeader/fileDesc/publicationStmt/*[position()<3]
2. /TEI.2/teiHeader/fileDesc/publicationStmt/publisher|//publicationStmt/pubPlace


5. How many paragraphs are in the text of this article?
• 34
• count(/TEI.2/text//p)


6. What different states are mentioned in the text?
• Indiana, Ohio, South Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas, North Carolina
• /TEI.2/text//region[@type="state"]


7. How many distinct cities are mentioned in the text? Hint: use distinct-values()
• 25
• count(/TEI.2/text/distinct-values(//settlement[@type="city"]))


8. How many times does “Evansville” appear in this article? Hint: use ctrl+F to check your work
• 2
• count(/TEI.2/text//p[contains(., "Evansville")])


9. What’s your best guess for how to figure out how many book reviews there are in this article using XPath alone?
• count(/TEI.2/text/body/div/p/hi[@rend="i"])