using xpath - how to show attributes?

[Anon]

i have a simple xml file as follows:

<parent>
<children>
<child name="tom"/>
<child name="dick"/>

<child name="harry"/>
</children>
</parent>

now, i can access the child whose name is tom by the following path:

//parent/children/child/[starts-with(@name, 'tom')]

but how do i display the value of "tom"? when i echo the following:

//parent/children/child/@name

nothing gets displayed, although the "for-each" look works fine (the correct number of children are looped through).

please help!! any ideas?

[Anon]

http://www.hansanderson.com/php/xml/

try this i used it in a similar example and worked fine
you can get the values from the val variable at traverce.inc
or you can get them by changing the sample.php and the array