Getting the value of an attribute in XML

Question

How would one get the value of attribute1 (blah) in the following xml using xslt:

<name attribute1="blah" attribute2="blahblah">
</name>

score 295 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '11 at 17:02

295

This is more of an xpath question, but like this, assuming the context is the parent element:

<xsl:value-of select="name/@attribute1" />

answered Mar 30 '11 at 17:02

James Sulak

What if the context is not in the parent element? – Arty Mar 24 '15 at 17:31
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again, this would be an xpath question ; – numX Nov 14 '15 at 15:34
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@Arty - I think what you're looking for is simply xsl:value-of select="./@attributename" – Sidharth Ramesh Apr 28 '20 at 13:38

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