'I want to get the count of an empty xml file having only closing tag. Using count function. I want to get count as zero

I have an xml payload as

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Data/>

While using count(/Data)=0 to check whether the data is zero or not it is not giving me proper results.

xml xpath

Solution 1:^[1]

There is one Data element so count(/Data) is 1.

If you want to test whether the Data element has any children, test count(/Data/*) = 0.

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Solution 1	Michael Kay