Hallo!
<paper>
<entries><entry field="id" type="string" required="yes">
<title>ID</title>
</entry><entry field="pass" type="string" required="yes">
<title>Passwordtitle>
</entry></entries>
</paper>
folgende XPath-Expression liefert dir die anzahl der entry-elemente unter paper/entries: count(/paper/entries/entry)
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