Matching first set of elements with xpath...

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Published on 2010-03-26T18:05:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 18:13 UTC
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I have an xml document that looks like this.

<foo>
    <bar type="artist"/> Bob Marley </bar>
    <bar type="artist"/> Peter Tosh </bar>
    <bar type="artist"/> Marlon Wayans </bar>
</foo>
<foo>
    <bar type="artist"/> Bob Marley </bar>
    <bar type="artist"/> Peter Tosh </bar>
    <bar type="artist"/> Marlon Wayans </bar>
</foo>
<foo>
    <bar type="artist"/> Bob Marley </bar>
    <bar type="artist"/> Peter Tosh </bar>
    <bar type="artist"/> Marlon Wayans </bar>
</foo>

I would like to construct an xpath that returns only the first set:

<bar type="artist"/> Bob Marley </a>
<bar type="artist"/> Peter Tosh </a>
<bar type="artist"/> Marlon Wayans </a>

How would one go about this? I have tried //bar[@type='artist'] but it's obvious there's more to this. Thanks in advance.

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