Attributes in Xpath local-name()

Question

This is a small sample of my xml file.

Answer 1

w:val attribute is in namespace, so you can't just address it by @val. One possible solution is by using @*[local-name()='attribute name'] expression to address an attribute by it's local name, similar to what you've done for elements :

//*[local-name()="highlight"][@*[local-name()='val' and .='yellow']]/../..//*[local-name()="t"]