From: Paul Willis <info@...>
Date: 2007-03-23T02:02:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Pulling text from elements with REXML

Gavin Kistner wrote:

> att = XPath.first( doc, '//kid/@stuff' )

> I don't know what the XPath syntax is to select the value of an
> attribute directly. I'd be interested to know if someone else knows it.

Cheers, it was the kid/@stuff I needed...

puts XPath.first( doc, '/root/kid/@stuff' )

#=> some-other-text

Paul

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