Return nth child

Using the following statement I get a valis response for i = 1 but when trying i = 2 etc I get an array out of bounds exception, any pointers would be great!

AutoPilot resultNode = new AutoPilot();
resultNode.selectXPath("/top/level[@sev='4']/item/title/text()[i]");
resultNode.bind(vn);
int z = resultNode.evalXPath();
System.out.println("TEST: "+vn.toString(z));

Example XML:

<top>
  <level sev="4">
    <item>
      <title>gngsfjdsf</title>
      <p1>2</p1>
      <p2>2</p2>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>sdadad</title>
      <p1>2</p1>
      <p2>2</p2>
    </item>
  </level>
  <level sev="3">
    <item>
      <title>3214125421</title>
      <p1>2</p1>
      <p2>1</p2>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>kjhkjtnjy</title>
      <p1>1</p1>
      <p2>2</p2>
    </item>
  </level>
</top>

This:

/top/level[@sev='4']/item/title/text()

indeed returns two values:

gngsfjdsf
sdadad

So you need to select only the second one, and you can do it by using parentheses:

(/top/level[@sev='4']/item/title/text())[2]

returns only

sdadad

The reason for your failure is that .../text()[2] tries to find the second text node of each of the found nodes, not the overall second node.

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An even better solution is to select the second item node instead of trying to only get the second text() node of all the matched nodes...

/top/level[@sev='4']/item[2]/title/text()