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Hi all,

For many of you this may be childishly simple, but the following
problem keeps me wondering for almost two hours, so I hope any of you
could point out what it is that I am doing wrong.

Consider the following simple XML: <?xml version="1.0"?
><rootE><tagA>valueA</tagA><tagB attrB1="attrValueB1"
attrB2="attrValueB2"/><tagC><tagCA/><tagCB/><tagCC><tagCCA/><tagCCA/
><tagCCB>60</tagCCB><tagCCC/></tagCC><tagCD/><tagCE/></tagC></rootE>

Now I want to read the value "attrValueB2" so I tried writing a
regular expression for it. I know that the following selects the
attribute (nicely highlighted by the Liquid XML Studio): /rootE/tagB/
@attrB2
But I cant seem to select the value of this attribute. I get an empty
string when quering /rootE/tagB/@attrB2/text()

ANY suggestions? I cant see what I'm doing wrong. Everything seems to
be fine in comparison with the tutorials I have seen and I tried all
the lexical variations / alterations I could think of.

Many thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Cheers,
Paul

wrote:

> Now I want to read the value "attrValueB2" so I tried writing a
> regular expression for it. I know that the following selects the
> attribute (nicely highlighted by the Liquid XML Studio): /rootE/tagB/
> @attrB2
> But I cant seem to select the value of this attribute. I get an empty
> string when quering /rootE/tagB/@attrB2/text()

Attributes in the XPath data model don't have any text child nodes.
Simply use
/rootE/tagB/@attrB2
to select the attribute, then you would get the value in a way depending
on the host language e.g. in XSLT with
<xsl:value-of select="/rootE/tagB/@attrB2"/>

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

* wrote in comp.text.xml:
>Now I want to read the value "attrValueB2" so I tried writing a
>regular expression for it. I know that the following selects the
>attribute (nicely highlighted by the Liquid XML Studio): /rootE/tagB/
>@attrB2
>But I cant seem to select the value of this attribute. I get an empty
>string when quering /rootE/tagB/@attrB2/text()

Use "string(/rootE/tagB/@attrB2)" though string() will be used
implicitly in many cases and is consequently rarely necessary.
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You where both right. Thank you very much. This clarifies a lot.
Cheers,
Paul

On May 19, 1:08 pm, Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjo...@hoehrmann.de> wrote:
> * pjvleeu...@gmail.com wrote in comp.text.xml:
>
> >Now I want to read the value "attrValueB2" so I tried writing a
> >regular expression for it. I know that the following selects the
> >attribute (nicely highlighted by the Liquid XML Studio): /rootE/tagB/
> >@attrB2
> >But I cant seem to select the value of this attribute. I get an empty
> >string when quering /rootE/tagB/@attrB2/text()
>
> Use "string(/rootE/tagB/@attrB2)" though string() will be used
> implicitly in many cases and is consequently rarely necessary.
> --
> Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjo...@hoehrmann.de ·http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de
> Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 ·http://www.bjoernsworld.de
> 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 ·http://www.websitedev.de/