Find the maximum child count with XPath 1.0

Question

Can I find one XML node with the most children with XPath?

  
    
  
  
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Answer 1

I think that it is impossible because to count children you need function count() which has one parameter - node-set and returns count of elements in this set. So you have no option how to count more node-sets than one to get max value.

Note: I am talking about XPath 1.0