The API doesn't support retrieving just an attribute. You will get back the element it is part of an you have to parse that.
hth, Mark George Papamarkos wrote: > Geia sou Grigiri, > > That's a good question and an extension of the API that supports this > kind of operations > would be helpful indeed. > The way I did it was by parsing the output ! > I could not find something smarted and faster. > > George > > PS: Basika auto einai ena provlima to opoio antimetopisa kai egw. > Apo osa exw dei mexri ta twra den ypostirizetai kati tetoio apeu8eias > paramono me parsing. > > Grigorios D. Tsoumakas wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Does anyone know how can I retrieve the value for an > >attribute of an element through an XPath Query... > >using the Xindice XML:DB API? > > > >For example suppose that I have the following element somewhere > >in the xml document in Xindice: > > > ><example shape="circle" color="red"> > > > >I use the following XPATH query to retrieve all "example" > >elements with color "red": > > > >//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'red'] > > > >This works, but how do I get to the value of the shape attribute? > > > >Alternatively I tried using the following XPATH query: > > > >//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'red']/@shape > > > >This should actually return the value of the attribute, but it > >does not return anything as a ResourceSet... > > > >Any ideas? > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Grigorios D. Tsoumakas, Phd Student > >Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki > >Thessaloniki 54124, Greece > >tel: +30-310998418 fax: +30-310998419 > >home page: http://users.auth.gr/~greg > > > > > > > > > > -- Mark J Stang System Architect Cybershop Systems
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