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Say for example we are looking at the following code and trying to pick out the emboldened text in one xpath query. (i.e The string value of the action attribute)

<form name=”MyForm” method=”post” action=”newpage.php” id=”MyForm”>

I have tried the following xpaths , but they don’t work

$xpath= '//form[contains(@name="MyForm"]/@action/value()';

and

$xpath= '//form[contains(@name="MyForm"]/@action/text()';

and I tried

$xpath= ‘//form[contains(@name=”MyForm”]/@action/string(@value)’;

…any help?

P.S The suggestion here, doesn’t seem to work either - i think it assumes that we have already got a node to apply the string () function on.

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