On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:12:19PM -0500, Jason Jesso wrote:
> How do you get an attribute value from an xmlNode that you get from a 
> resulting XPath result set?
> 
> e.g. xpath =  //form/input
> 
> <form>
>      <input name="some name" />
>         ....
>         ....
> </form>
> 
> This gives me several "input" nodes as a result set, but I want to get the 
> value of the name attribute.
> 
> I can't seem to find anything in the Python libxml2.py to give me this value.

  node.prop("name")

libxml2.py: line 3235
    def prop(self, name):
        """Search and get the value of an attribute associated to a
           node This does the entity substitution. This function
           looks in DTD attribute declaration for #FIXED or default
           declaration values unless DTD use has been turned off.
           NOTE: this function acts independently of namespaces
           associated to the attribute. Use xmlGetNsProp() or
           xmlGetNoNsProp() for namespace aware processing. """
        ret = libxml2mod.xmlGetProp(self._o, name)
        return ret


Daniel

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