Applescript XML Parse Header

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I searched here and Google and came up with nothing, so I am hoping that someone here can help me understand how to parse "href=" from the XML Header in the following example.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo version="2" href="/event/189" product="Server">
    <name>The Name</name>
</foo>

Here is what I do know. To parse the element "name" in the xml file, I can do the following:

set source_xml to choose file "Select your xml source"
set posix_source_xml to POSIX path of source_xml

tell application "System Events"
    set xml_file to XML file posix_source_xml
    tell xml_file
        tell XML element "foo"
            set name_value to value of XML element "name"
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

But how do I get the value for "href=" in the "foo" header? I tried this with no success:

set source_xml to choose file "Select your xml source"
set posix_source_xml to POSIX path of source_xml

tell application "System Events"
    set xml_file to XML file posix_source_xml
    tell xml_file
        set foo_value to value of XML element "foo"
    end tell
end tell

Even if that did work, I would imagine it would return - version="2" href="/event/189" product="Server" - and not just - /event/189.

Any assistance on this would be greatly appreciated!

hey @snwbrdr78 how did this go? Did you have any luck with my answer? — adamh
– adamh, Commented Aug 27, 2014 at 6:51

adamh · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-19 08:34:20Z

1

There is an XML attribute property.

To get href from your example:

set href_value to value of XML attribute "href" of XML element "foo"

answered Mar 19, 2014 at 8:34

adamh

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