first (REXML::XPath)

    # File src/rexml/xpath.rb, line 22
                    def XPath::first element, path=nil, namespaces={}, variables={}
                            parser = XPathParser.new
                            parser.namespaces = namespaces
                            parser.variables = variables
                            path = "*" unless path
                            element = [element] unless element.kind_of? Array
                            parser.parse(path, element)[0]
                    end