XPath expressions that return scalar value

Hi, DOMXPath->query() method according to documentation returns DOMNodeList() object. But how can I access result of expression that returns just string, number or boolean? E.g. DOMXPath->query("count(//*)") will return empty node-set from PHP point of view. Do you plan to add new method, say evaluate, that will be able to return scalar types? Something like: echo "Total number of element in document: " . $xpath->evaluate("count(//*)"); echo "Title of the first chapter: " . $xpath->evaluate("string(//chapter[1])"); Without such method XPath API in PHP is very limited compared to other XPath API in languages like Java or .NET. Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://www.kosek.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Profesionální školení a poradenství v oblasti technologií XML. Podívejte se na náš nově spuštěný web http://DocBook.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------