[xquery-talk] Query the attributes

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Just updating...
I tried :
 {
  string($college/@id)
}

and

 {
        $college/@id/string()
}

Both worked!

You were right John, I checked the source of HTML .. the name was
getting on to the div element as an attribute.

so it is more like copy-of select as opposed to  value-of select

So i tried

{
  $college/name/text()
}

this copied the text node of the name.. So the <div> <name>rerr
</name> </div> now is more  <div> rerr </div> which is what i want...

I guess we couldnt do the same for the attribute nodes as {$college/@id/text()}


Thanks....

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Mailing Lists Mail
<daktapaal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike/ JOhn/
>
> As far as my knowledge went, i did not think anything was wrong as
> calling a child element should be the same as calling attribute for
> practical purposes.
> I will try to reproduce the issue with something smaller. In the
> meantime, I shall try John's suggestion..,
>
> Thanks both for your replies.
> Dak
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:53 AM, John Snelson
> <john.snelson at marklogic.com> wrote:
>> On 23/05/13 09:34, Mailing Lists Mail wrote:
>>>
>>>   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>
>>
>>
>> In both those cases you're selecting nodes, and the nodes are being added to
>> the result tree. I suspect the browser is displaying the name, as it is an
>> element with text content, but the "id" attribute is added as an attribute,
>> which browsers don't display.
>>
>> In both cases what you really want is probably the string value of those
>> nodes, which you can get be calling the string() function on them.
>>
>> John
>>
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>> John Snelson, Lead Engineer                    http://twitter.com/jpcs
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