How can I get the value from an attribute using xmllint and XPath?

Question

I want to get the value of name and put it in a variable using XMLLint

echo \'cat //body         


        

Answer 1

You need to use fn:string(), which will return the value of its argument as xs:string. In case its argument is an attribute, it will therefore return the attribute's value as xs:string.

test=$(xmllint --xpath "string(//body/value/@name)" test.xml)