Rails - Mar 2010 - Selenium-client - get matching elements and their attributes

hi all

I''m using selenium-client with selenium rspec. I''m trying to
build a
helper method that will, given this html on the page...

    <div id="flashes">
        <p id="flash_notice" class="messages
notice">good things</p>
        <p id="flash_errors" class="messages
errors">bad things</p>
        <p id="flash_help" class="messages
help">helpful things</p>
    </div>

...generate this hash:

{:notice => "good things", :errors => "bad things",
:help => "helpful
things"}

Ideally i''d like to keep it flexible so i don''t have to tell
it to
specifically look for notice, errors and help, but just pull out
whatever''s there in the flashes div.

I''ve been trying to do this using xpath selectors but am struggling
because, for example,

@browser.get_attribute("//div[@id=''flashes'']/p@id")

just returns the first p tag''s id, rather than an array of ids for
example.  I get the feeling that i''m missing something fundamental.

grateful for any advice - max
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