XPath : finding an attribute node (and only one)

Question

What is the XPath to find only ONE node (whichever) having a certain attribute (actually I\'m interested in the attribute, not the node). For example, in my XML, I have seve

Answer 1

Did you tried this?

//@lang[1]

here you can see an example.

Answer 2

The following XPath seems to do what you want:

//*[@lang][1]/attribute::lang

Answer 3

After some more tackling, here is a working solution :

 (//@lang)[1]

Parentheses are needed to separate the [1] from the attribute name, otherwise the position() function is applied within the parent element of the attribute (which is useless since there can be only one attribute of a certain name within a tag : that's why //@lang[2] always selects nothing).