Re: [dom4j-user] xpath selectSingleNode to get an attribute

[James Strachan]

Hi Dave   The XPath expression /slideshow/@title will return an Attribute object. Using the [] notation evaluates a predicate on the current node. So if you wanted to find the 'title' attributes for all the slideshow's that have a colour="blue" attribute you could use   /slideshow[@colour='blue']/@title   If all you want is the value of the title attribute then       String value = doc.valueOf( "/slideshow/@title" );   should do fine.   If you need some help understanding XPath the links on the http://dom4j.org site might help - Check out the 'Useful links' section with Elliotte's article and the Zvon tutorial - both are excellent introductions to XPath. James ----- Original Message ----- From: David Thielen To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 7:12 PM Subject: [dom4j-user] xpath selectSingleNode to get an attribute 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