Another hopefully simple question: root attributes

[MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wroth, Mark)]

Once again I appeal to the list for help on something that I think should be
simple but which I seem to be unable to break the code.

I need a construct which returns as a string the value of a known attribute
of the root element of a document (regardless of the GI of the document
element). I think my problem is in identifying the root element, but ... 

Say the attribute I need is "id" (which it is :-). As I read the spec, 
	
	(attribute-string "id" root)

would do what I want if "root" was an osnl returning the root element of the
current document.

The need for this can appear arbitrarily deep in the document hierarchy,
FWIW.


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