The following two examples illustrate how to use XPath functionality to select a data sequence element when the index of the element you want is known at design time. In these cases, it is the first element.

In the following example, addresses[1] selects the first element of the addresses data sequence:

<assign>
   <!-- get the first address and assign to variable address -->
   <copy>
      <from variable="input" part="payload"
         query="/tns:invalidLoanApplication/autoloan:application
                /autoloan:customer/autoloan:addresses[1]"/>
      <to variable="address"/>
   </copy>
</assign>

In this query, addresses[1] is equivalent to addresses[position()=1], where position is one of the core XPath functions (see sections 2.4 and 4.1 of the XML Path Language (XPath) Specification). The query in the following example calls the position function explicitly to select the first element of the address's data sequence. It then selects that address's street element (which the activity assigns to the variable street1).

<assign>
   <!-- get the first address's street and assign to street1 -->
   <copy>
      <from variable="input" part="payload"
         query="/tns:invalidLoanApplication/autoloan:application
                /autoloan:customer/autoloan:addresses[position()=1]
                /autoloan:street"/>
      <to variable="street1"/>
   </copy>
</assign>

If you review the definition of the input variable and its payload part in the WSDL file, you go several levels down before coming to the definition of the addresses field. There you see the maxOccurs="unbounded" attribute. The two XPath indexing methods are functionally identical; you can use whichever method you prefer.