Perfect. That solves my problem. Sorry about the goofy problem. tcp
-----Original Message----- From: Christian Nentwich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 10:46 AM To: Tom Preston Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Jaxen] using [@name] inside of JAXEN > While dynamically trying to retrieve an Attribute value using Jaxen...I find > that I have a problem. I have to "KNOW" within my program that I have > searched for an Attribute as opposed to an Element. This is because the > XPath xpath = new XPath( "/TRIPS/TRIP/VACATION_ID[@name]"); I'm not sure I understodd you correctly at all, but your path is wrong if you are looking for an attribute. You should use /TRIPS/TRIP/VACATION_ID/@name instead of /TRIPS/TRIP/VACATION_ID[@name] What you are doing is returning all VACATION_ID elements that have a name attribute instead of returning the attribute nodes. Christian _______________________________________________ Jaxen-interest mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jaxen-interest