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The following is the DOM-tree representation of the selected node:
The data set then flattens the selected data into the following table.
@id photographer photographer/@id email
12345 John Doe 4532 john@doe.com
Notice that the column names for attributes of children elements are prefixed with the tag name of the child element.
In this particular case, photographer is a child element of the selected gallery node, so its id attribute is prefixed
with photographer/@. Also notice that nothing was added to the table for the photos element, even though it is a
child of the gallery node. That is because Spry does not flatten any child elements that contain other elements.
Example of selecting an attribute of a single element and flattening it
With XPath you can also select attributes of nodes. The following code shows data selected with the
gallery/photos/photo/@path XPath, in bold:
John Doe
john@doe.com
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