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-rw-r--r--src/library/scala/xml/NodeSeq.scala5
-rw-r--r--test/files/jvm/xmlattr.scala7
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/library/scala/xml/NodeSeq.scala b/src/library/scala/xml/NodeSeq.scala
index decf60dad7..d2efc947b1 100644
--- a/src/library/scala/xml/NodeSeq.scala
+++ b/src/library/scala/xml/NodeSeq.scala
@@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ abstract class NodeSeq extends AbstractSeq[Node] with immutable.Seq[Node] with S
}
}
+ /** Convenience method which returns string text of the named attribute. Use:
+ * - `that \@ "foo"` to get the string text of attribute `"foo"`;
+ */
+ def \@(attributeName: String): String = (this \ ("@" + attributeName)).text
+
override def toString(): String = theSeq.mkString
def text: String = (this map (_.text)).mkString
diff --git a/test/files/jvm/xmlattr.scala b/test/files/jvm/xmlattr.scala
index d214642eb6..6423268ba7 100644
--- a/test/files/jvm/xmlattr.scala
+++ b/test/files/jvm/xmlattr.scala
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ object Test {
UnprefixedAttributeTest()
AttributeWithOptionTest()
AttributeOutputTest()
+ AttributeOperatorTest()
}
object UnprefixedAttributeTest {
@@ -60,4 +61,10 @@ object Test {
}
}
+ object AttributeOperatorTest {
+ def apply() {
+ val xml = <foo bar="apple" />
+ assert(xml \@ "bar" == "apple")
+ }
+ }
}