[dom4j-user] xpath selectSingleNode to get an attribute

[David Thielen]

Hi; If I call:     Node node = doc.selectSingleNode( "/slideshow[@title]" ); It does not return the attribute for title - it returns the slideshow element. I then have to do node.valueOf to get the attribute. It seems logical to me that if I request an attribute in my xpath command, that I should get the attribute back as the node.   And if I can't do that, is there any easy way to select the attribute part of an xpath request out? I get these strings from users so I have to parse it out in this case. ????? - thanks - dave