How to extract a list of string from xml file?

Question

I have an xml file and an attribute "name" in some of the tags. If I give the correct xpath - is there a way to extract a list of strings, each element being one of the values of this attribute? (I do not need to get the entire list of DOM nodes...)

Answer 1

With XPath 2.0 or with XQuery you can write //@name/string() to get a sequence of string values of all name attributes in the document. With XPath 1.0 you can select the attribute nodes with //@name but then you need to use your host language (eg Java) to build a list of all the attribute values.