[xquery-talk] Query the attributes

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Dear All,
 I was trying to query the atribute value using Xquery in MarkLogic and
 no matter what, I dont seem to be printing the value...
 So this is what I do...

 for $college at $position in  $doc//college
    return
         <div>
             {$college/name}
         </div>
        <div>
             {$college/@id}
         </div>

This is interesting as the first div is prints the name of the
 college... the second is empty..  if I change the xpath to:
  <div>
             {$college/@*[1]/name()}
         </div>
  this does print the text "id"  , which is correct.

so I tried

 <div>
             {$college/@*[1] }
         </div>

I thought that this should print the value in the attribute id, which
 is also the first attribute...

There is probably something very basic, I am missing... So please help!

Thanks
 --Dak