RE: how to xpath the *value* of an attribute based on

> Turns out you are right - I had been using oxygen's xpath 
> evaluator and it kept returning the whole node rather than 
> the attribute value I wanted, and I perhaps foolishly trusted 
> to that. 

In fact your expressions do return the attribute node, not the contents of
the node. But if you use an expression whose value is a node in a context
where a value is expected, then the "value of the node" is extracted
automatically. XPath 2.0 calls this process "atomization".

Regards,

Michael Kay
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