Attributes in Xpath local-name()

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This is a small sample of my xml file.

<w:p><w:pPr><w:rPr><w:highlight w:val="yellow"/></w:rPr></w:pPr><w:bookmarkStart w:id="0" w:name="_GoBack"/><w:bookmarkEnd w:id="0"/><w:r w:rsidRPr="00D1434D"><w:rPr><w:rFonts w:ascii="Times New Roman" w:eastAsia="MS PGothic" w:hAnsi="Times New Roman"/><w:b/><w:color w:val="000000"/><w:sz w:val="24"/><w:szCs w:val="24"/><w:highlight w:val="yellow"/></w:rPr><w:t xml:space="preserve">Responses to </w:t></w:r><w:r w:rsidR="00335D4A" w:rsidRPr="00D1434D"><w:rPr><w:rFonts w:ascii="Times New Roman" w:eastAsia="MS PGothic" w:hAnsi="Times New Roman"/><w:b/><w:color w:val="000000"/><w:sz w:val="24"/><w:szCs w:val="24"/><w:highlight w:val="yellow"/><w:lang w:eastAsia="ja-JP"/></w:rPr><w:t>the Reviewer</w:t></w:r>  

I want to extract text with the w:highlight tag specifically having the attribute value = "yellow" . I searched for it but wasn't able to come up with a solution.

The following works for highlight in general:

for t in source.xpath('.//*[local-name()="highlight"]/../..//*[local-name()="t"]'):
     do something  

I tried :

for t in lxml_tree.xpath('//*[local-name()="highlight"][@val="yellow"]/../..//*[local-name()="t"]'):

this doesn't work, returns nothing..

asked 1 min ago

Swordy

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Attributes in Xpath local-name()