xmerl and selecting attributes

[Ralf Doering]

Hello,

seems I've got a problem selecting the value of an attribute from an XML tag.

Consider the following short example:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
-module(xmerl_test).

-include_lib("xmerl/include/xmerl.hrl").

-import(xmerl_xs, 
	[ xslapply/2, value_of/1, select/2, built_in_rules/2 ]).


-export([start/0]).

start() ->
    {XmlElement, _Rest} = xmerl_scan:string("<test myattr=\"123\" />"),
    template(XmlElement).


template( E = #xmlElement{name='test'}) ->
    Attr = value_of(select("@myattr", E)),
    io:format("MyAttribute: ~w~n", [Attr]),
    xslapply(fun template/1,E),
    E;

template(E) ->
    built_in_rules( fun template/1, E).

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


When running this, I get:

(emacs@REDACTED)13> xmerl_test:start().
MyAttribute: []
[]

I was expecting that value_of(select("@myattr"),E) would extract "123" as
attribute value. Am I wrong here, do I use the wrong XPath for this?

TIA,
Ralf
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