Reading the values of XML tag attributes

[Skyzyx]

I've been to www.youngpup.net (this guy is brilliant!). Anyways, I was reading some of his content which is in XML files, and noticed that he had a script there somewhere that was able to read and display the value of an attribute in an XML tag. I looked through his source code, and didn't see it, although obviously, it was there somewhere... I just must have missed it.

Anyways, does anyone know of a cross-platform way of reading these attributes?

Thanks
-- Sky

[Skyzyx]

I'm going to bump this thread, k?

[brothercake]

assuming you're talking XSL ...


<xsl:value-of select="node" />

<xsl:value-of select="@attribute" />



You can add node/attribute values into other strings like

<a href="{url}">

or

<a href="{@url}">



I think that's right :o

[Skyzyx]

That's good, but I'm looking for a JavaScript way to do it. I know that HTML tag attributes can be read with getAttribute(), but I wasn't sure if a similar way could be used for XML.

[Alex Vincent]

The getAttribute() method of Element is a DOM Core method; it will work from XML. The key is for the document to recognize your script element in the first place:

<script xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" type="application/x-javascript"><![CDATA[
// script here
]]></script>

[Skyzyx]

You've been a tremendous help. I appreciate it!