XPath doesn't return attribute value
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                 Key: SYNAPSE-557
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SYNAPSE-557
             Project: Synapse
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Core
            Reporter: Bill Harts


Problem:
An XPath expression in my synapse.xml configuration file is unable to retrieve 
an XML attribute from a message.  Example:

<log level="custom">
  <property name="sessID"  
expression="//cfl:LoginResponse/cfl:LoginResponseData/@sessionID" 
xmlns:cfl="http:www.test.com/cfl" />
</log>

The message body is:
 <soapenv:Body>
  <cfl:LoginResponse xmlns:cfl="http://www.test.com/cfl";>
   <cfl:LoginResponseData sessionID="250446AD43C0EEF3ED2F3172F8FA0A3D" 
statusCode="0"/>
  </cfl:LoginResponse>
 </soapenv:Body>

In this case the log mediator always returns null for the sessID variable.

Cause:
After poking around in a bunch of modules I believe that these XPath 
expressions are being handled in module synapseXPath.java.  Specifically there 
is a call in stringValueOf(MessageContext synCtx) to BaseXPath.evaluate() which 
returns a List of element pointers retrieved by the XPath expression.  The 
function then correctly checks each element to to determine if it is of type 
OMTextImpl, OMElementImpl or OMDocumentImpl but when an attribute has been 
found evaluate() returns an attribute of type DocumentNavigator$OMAttributeEx.  
It appears that there is no code in stringValueOf() to handle this type of 
pointer.

Solution:
I added the following code to synapseXpath.java::stringValueOf at line 206:

                    ...
                    } else if (o instanceof OMAttributeEx) {
                        textValue.append( 
((OMAttributeEx)o).getAttributeValue());
                   }
                   ...

Also, since the type OMAttributeEx is an inner class of type DocumentNavigator 
I needed to add an import statement in SynapseXPath.java:

import org.apache.axiom.om.xpath.DocumentNavigator.OMAttributeEx;

Unfortunately, OMAtributeEx is defined as private to class DocumentNavigator so 
I had to declare class and constructor OMAttributeEx as public in the module 
DocumentNavigator.java in the Axiom project module axiom-api.jar.  

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