Hi John,

that's correct - attributes cannot be serialized. It's not the fault of BaseX; the reason are intricacies of the serialization model [1]. (The attributes would become attributes of a document node, which is not possible.)

Perhaps you can get avoid the problem by attaching to your query expression which yields the attributes /string(), like //a/@b/string()?

Kind regards,
Hans-Jürgen


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/