Re: XPath with node names and attributes...

Just give the XPath engine properly formatted XPath queries and all will work.

In your case, that likely means using:

root/head/node1@att1
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instead of

root/head/node1/@att1
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Re^2: XPath with node names and attributes... by mirod (Canon) on Oct 16, 2009 at 16:17 UTC
There must be something I am missing here. `root/head/node1@att1` is invalid, while `root/head/node1/@att1` works just fine. I tested that with several tools, including XML::LibXML. I would actually had the starting slash: `/root/head/node1@att1`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: XPath with node names and attributes... by biswanath_c (Beadle) on Oct 16, 2009 at 16:05 UTC
I tried using the XPath that you suggested (root/head/node1@att1). But in that case, i call findnodes(<XPath with attribute>) and iterate thru the resulting array and call findValue(".") on the array elements, it returns nothing! i tried calling nodeValue() also, that too returned nothing! i tried textContent(), it returned value of the node but not the value of the attribute! What do i do?	[reply]
Re^3: XPath with node names and attributes... by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 17, 2009 at 13:23 UTC
Actually, I am wrong and you are right - queries for attributes also need `/` as the separator. I thought the `@` would separate a element node from an attribute node, as the documentation seems to suggest to me in `//title[@lang]`, but upon actually trying it, I find that only `node/@attribute` works for me, and likely is the correct query to use.	[reply] [d/l] [select]