Get a specific number of results from an XmlDocument XPath query

Question

I\'m querying a Twitter RSS feed and supplying the results into a Repeater for display. I\'d like to only get the first 5 results of the XPath query. Is there a way to do th

Answer 1

Try this XPath query instead:

(/rss/channel/item)[position() <= 5]

It returns only the first five matching items. The parentheses are important, as without them the [position() <= 5] part applies to the item element's position in its parent rather than its position in the result node set.