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Hello, I am trying to parse an xml which comes back from Amazon and I am trying to know how many Browsenodes are shown within the XML. I am using the classs Tarzan to get the xml from Amazon and the returned data is automatically placed into simplexml. So currently I have this script $nodeinfo = $pas->browse_node_lookup($node); $xmlNode = $nodeinfo ->body->BrowseNodes->BrowseNode->xpath('/Ancestors'); $nodeCount = count ( $xmlNode ); if($nodeCount){ echo "NodeCount".$nodeCount."\n"; } The $nodeinfo holds the following xml structure and I am only showing the part for the Nodes [browseNodes] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [Request] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [isValid] => True [browseNodeLookupRequest] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNodeId] => 16197 ) ) [browseNode] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNodeId] => 16197 [Name] => Epic [Ancestors] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNode] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNodeId] => 16190 [Name] => Fantasy [Ancestors] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNode] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNodeId] => 25 [Name] => Science Fiction & Fantasy [Ancestors] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNode] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNodeId] => 1000 [Name] => Subjects [isCategoryRoot] => 1 [Ancestors] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNode] => SimpleXMLElement Object ( [browseNodeId] => 283155 [Name] => Books with the Xpath I am trying to get the number how often "Ancestors" is shown. With this count I am able to goto my next programming script. With my script this is not working, it always gives me a 1. Is there a better way then how I have tried to solve it to count the Ancesters node? Is there also a way how to read the Nodes backway to front? Amazon gives the Structure of an item from the lowest group to the highest. I am kind of new with Simplexml and would really need some help. Hope some one can help me out. Best regards, Robert