How can I select the first element using XSLT?

Question

I have a list of news items, sorted by dateCreated. I have a preview box control where I only want to show the first item. How can I do that using XSLT?

Answer 1

//newsItem[1]

Selects the first book newsItem element, but note that IE5 and later has implemented that [0] should be the first node, but according to the W3C standard it should be [1]!