How to get the value of an attribute using XPath

Question

I have been testing using Selenium WebDriver and I have been looking for an XPath code to get the value of the attribute of an HTML element as part of my regression testing.

Answer 1

Selenium Xpath can only return elements. You should pass javascript function that executes xpaths and returns strings to selenium.

I'm not sure why they made it this way. Xpath should support returning strings.