Count multiple nodes in XML using xPath

Question

Hi',
How to count the CUSTSERIAL node in the below XML using xPath.
<missingICCRec>
<MissingField xmlns="http://www.Google.com/MissingFields/v1.0">
<CUSTSERIAL xmlns="http://Google.com/InboundService">23809002RN</CUSTSERIAL>
<CUSTSERIAL xmlns="http://Google.com/InboundService">23809003RN</CUSTSERIAL>
<CUSTSERIAL xmlns="http://Google.com/InboundService">23809004RN</CUSTSERIAL>
</MissingField>
</missingICCRec>
Thanks
Yatan

Answer 1

Yatan,
I created a simple BPEL with assign to count the node. Using ora:countNodes() function is throwing exception but when i tried with count() it works.
XSD seems to be valid. Only you need to have the function as below.
count(bpws:getVariableData('inputVariable','payload','/client:process/client:missingICCRec/client:MissingField/client:CUSTSERIAL'))
XSD Used:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified"
targetNamespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/PIMtoRPASAmendment/BPLENodeCount/BPLENodeCount"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<element name="process">
<complexType>
<sequence>
<element name="missingICCRec">
<complexType>
<sequence>
<element name="MissingField">
<complexType>
<sequence>
<element name="CUSTSERIAL" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="string"/>
</sequence>
</complexType>
</element>
</sequence>
</complexType>
</element>
</sequence>
</complexType>
</element>
<element name="processResponse">
<complexType>
<sequence>
<element name="result" type="string"/>
</sequence>
</complexType>
</element>
</schema>
This works !!!
Please let me know if this helps.
Thanks,
Vijay