Accessing an XML Node's Attribute

Demonstrates how to access an XML node's attribute's value. In this example, we'll access the valud for the ISBN of the first book in the following XML document, which is located at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/testData/bookstore.xml

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<bookstore>
   <book ISBN="10-000000-001">
...
</bookstore>

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require 'rubygems'
require 'chilkat'


xml = Chilkat::CkXml.new()

success = xml.LoadXmlFile("bookstore.xml")
if (success != true)
    print xml.lastErrorText() + "\n"
    exit
end

#  Navigate to the 1st child (i.e. the "book" node)
xml.FirstChild2()

#  Now access the attribute:

attrValue = xml.getAttrValue("ISBN")

print attrValue + "\n";