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<font face="Arial">Hello,<br>
<br>
Despite many trials, i am failing extracting the value of an
attribute with xmlXPath(). <br>
Here is an example:<br>
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text = ["<</tt><tt>main>"</tt><tt><br>
" <itag target=""valueA"" url=""valueB"" />"<br>
</tt><tt><tt> " <itag target=""valueA2"" url=""valueB2""
/>"<br>
</tt></tt><tt><tt><tt> " <itag target=""valueA3""
url=""valueB3"" />"<br>
"</main>"<br>
];<br>
doc = xmlReadStr(text)<br>
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</tt></tt></tt><font face="Arial">Now, we want to select all </font><tt><itag</tt><font
face="Arial"> entries for which the </font><tt>target</tt><font
face="Arial"> attribute has a given value (say </font><tt>valueA2</tt><font
face="Arial">), and for them, get the related </font><tt>url</tt><font
face="Arial"> value:<br>
<br>
</font><tt>-->e = xmlXPath(doc, "//itag[@target=""valueA2""]")
</tt><tt>// works:<br>
</tt><tt> e =</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>XML List</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>size: </tt><tt>1</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><font face="Arial">but </font><tt>e</tt><font face="Arial">
has no attributes fields. So i cannot get its </font><tt>url </tt><font
face="Arial">contents:<br>
</font><tt>-->e.</tt><tt>name</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> ans = </tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> itag </tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>-->e.attributes</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> !--error 999 </tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>%XMLSet_e: Unknown field: attributes</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><font face="Arial">How is it possible to do what we expect,
whether it is?<br>
Reading examples on the official xmlXPath webpage did not help...<br>
<br>
Thanks for any hints<br>
Samuel<br>
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