From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-02-22T19:36:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Xpath to attributes

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 10:33 +0900, listrecv@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there anyway to do generic xpath's, for both elements and attributes
> (ie //customer/phone/@type --> "home")?  REXML can do xpath to fetch
> elements (rexml_element.text('//customer/phone')) but can't seem to use
> xpath to find attributes.

	d = REXML::Document.new <<EOX
	  <customer>
	    <phone type='home'>0115</phone>
	    <phone type='mobi'>07807</phone>
	  </customer>
	EOX

	m = REXML::XPath.match(d, '//customer/phone[@type = "home"]')
 	p m.to_s
	# => <phone type='home'>0115</phone>

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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk