For this purpose, try
h1 [keep /> dfilter (parseXtract "/greetings/greeting[1]/-")]
cheers, Luby Liao

> I am just trying out a few things with the Xtract tool. I have a
> simple XML document:
>
> <greetings>
> <greeting>hello</greeting>
> <greeting>world</greeting>
> </greetings>
>
> I am using the Xtract query /greetings/greeting[1]/- hoping to get the
> text "world"
> e.g.
> mkElem "h1" [applypred (keep) (parseXtract "/greetings/greeting[1]/-")]
>
> but this just returns the entire xml document. Have i got something
> fundamentally wrong here?
>
> Thanks
> Tom Spencer
>
>