diff --git a/src/providers/XPath.ts b/src/providers/XPath.ts
index 168deec..fd54e84 100644
--- a/src/providers/XPath.ts
+++ b/src/providers/XPath.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import * as vsc from 'vscode';
 import * as ext from '../Extension';
-import { XPathEvaluator } from '../services/XPathEvaluator';
+import { XPathEvaluator, EvaluatorResult, EvaluatorResultType } from '../services/XPathEvaluator';
 
 const CFG_SECTION: string = 'xmlTools';
 const CFG_PERSIST_QUERY: string = 'persistXPathQuery';
@@ -59,12 +59,11 @@ export class XPathFeatureProvider {
             
             // run the query
             let xml: string = editor.document.getText();
-            let nodes: Node[];
+            let evalResult: EvaluatorResult;
             
             try {
-                nodes = XPathEvaluator.evaluate(query, xml, ignoreDefaultNamespace);
+                evalResult = XPathEvaluator.evaluate(query, xml, ignoreDefaultNamespace);
             }
-            
             catch (error) {
                 console.error(error);
                 vsc.window.showErrorMessage(`Something went wrong while evaluating the XPath: ${error}`);
@@ -78,10 +77,13 @@ export class XPathFeatureProvider {
             outputChannel.appendLine(`XPath Query: ${query}`);
             outputChannel.append('\n');
             
-            nodes.forEach((node: XmlNode) => {
-                outputChannel.appendLine(`[Line ${node.lineNumber}] ${node.localName}: ${node.textContent}`);
-            });
-
+            if (evalResult.type === EvaluatorResultType.NODE_COLLECTION) {
+                (evalResult.result as Node[]).forEach((node: XmlNode) => {
+                    outputChannel.appendLine(`[Line ${node.lineNumber}] ${node.localName}: ${node.textContent}`);
+                });
+            } else {    
+                outputChannel.appendLine(`[Result]: ${evalResult.result}`);
+            }
             outputChannel.show(vsc.ViewColumn.Three);
             
             // if persistence is enabled, save the query for later
diff --git a/src/services/XPathEvaluator.ts b/src/services/XPathEvaluator.ts
index 3bc77a2..50979b2 100644
--- a/src/services/XPathEvaluator.ts
+++ b/src/services/XPathEvaluator.ts
@@ -4,8 +4,18 @@ import * as xpath from 'xpath';
 
 let DOMParser = require('xmldom').DOMParser;
 
+export class EvaluatorResult {
+    type: EvaluatorResultType;
+    result: Node[]|number|string|boolean;
+}
+
+export class EvaluatorResultType {
+    static SCALAR_TYPE: number = 0;
+    static NODE_COLLECTION: number = 1;
+}
+
 export class XPathEvaluator {
-    static evaluate(query: string, xml: string, ignoreDefaultNamespace: boolean): Node[] {
+    static evaluate(query: string, xml: string, ignoreDefaultNamespace: boolean): EvaluatorResult {
         if (ignoreDefaultNamespace) {
             xml = xml.replace(/xmlns=".+"/g, (match: string) => {
                 return match.replace(/xmlns/g, 'xmlns:default');
@@ -17,14 +27,39 @@ export class XPathEvaluator {
         let xdoc: Document = new DOMParser().parseFromString(xml, 'text/xml');
         
         let resolver: xpath.XPathNSResolver = xpath.createNSResolver(xdoc);
-        let expression: xpath.XPathExpression = xpath.createExpression(query, resolver);
-        let result: xpath.XPathResult = expression.evaluate(xdoc, xpath.XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE);
+        let result: xpath.XPathResult = xpath.evaluate(
+            query,            // xpathExpression
+            xdoc,                        // contextNode
+            resolver,                       // namespaceResolver
+            xpath.XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, // resultType
+            null                        // result
+        )
+
+        let evalResult = new EvaluatorResult();
+        evalResult.type = EvaluatorResultType.SCALAR_TYPE;
         
-        let node: Node;
-        while (node = result.iterateNext()) {
-            nodes.push(node);
+        switch(result.resultType) {
+            case xpath.XPathResult.NUMBER_TYPE:
+                evalResult.result = result.numberValue;
+                break; 
+            case xpath.XPathResult.STRING_TYPE:
+                evalResult.result = result.stringValue;
+                break; 
+            case xpath.XPathResult.BOOLEAN_TYPE:
+                evalResult.result = result.booleanValue;
+                break; 
+            case xpath.XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE:
+            case xpath.XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE:
+                evalResult.result = result.booleanValue;
+                let node: Node;
+                while (node = result.iterateNext()) {
+                    nodes.push(node);
+                }
+                evalResult.result = nodes;
+                evalResult.type = EvaluatorResultType.NODE_COLLECTION;
+                break; 
         }
-        
-        return nodes;
+
+        return evalResult;
     }
 }
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