Re: [xml] libxml2, xpath, accessing attribute value

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 07:24:30PM -0500, Henry E. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm been experimenting with the xpath1.c program.  How does a person
> access the value of an attribute?  I tried a few things that did not work and I
> also read the man but that did not clarify the issue.
>
> I know I'm trying to access an attribute because the last item of my xpath
> is a '@example'.

  You will get back a node set pointer structure, and then assuming it's
not empty you can look at the values for this (those) node(s) as usual.
alternatively you van ask string(     example) and you will get back
a XPath object containing a string.

Daniel

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