diff --git a/requests_html.py b/requests_html.py
index 0745edb..4c382e1 100644
--- a/requests_html.py
+++ b/requests_html.py
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ class BaseParser:
 
         See W3School's `CSS Selectors Reference <https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp>`_ for more details.
 
-
         If ``first`` is ``True``, only returns the first :class:`Element <Element>` found."""
 
         encoding = _encoding or self.encoding
@@ -115,12 +114,27 @@ class BaseParser:
         return _get_first_or_list(elements, first)
 
     def xpath(self, selector: str, first: bool = False, _encoding: str = None):
-        """Given an XPath selector, returns a list of :class:`Element <Element>` objects.
+        """Given an XPath selector, returns a list of
+        :class:`Element <Element>` objects.
 
-        See W3School's `XPath Examples <https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_examples.asp>`_ for more details.
+        If a sub-selector is specified (e.g. ``//a/@href``), a simple
+        list of results is returned.
 
-        If ``first`` is ``True``, only returns the first :class:`Element <Element>` found."""
-        c = [Element(element=e, url=self.url, default_encoding=_encoding or self.encoding) for e in self.lxml.xpath(selector)]
+        See W3School's `XPath Examples
+        <https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xpath_examples.asp>`_
+        for more details.
+
+        If ``first`` is ``True``, only returns the first
+        :class:`Element <Element>` found.
+        """
+        selected = self.lxml.xpath(selector)
+        c = []
+        for selection in selected:
+            if not isinstance(selection, etree._ElementUnicodeResult):
+                element = Element(element=selection, url=self.url, default_encoding=_encoding or self.encoding)
+            else:
+                element = selection
+            c.append(element)
 
         return _get_first_or_list(c, first)
 
diff --git a/tests/test_requests_html.py b/tests/test_requests_html.py
index c2c9ad7..5780bde 100644
--- a/tests/test_requests_html.py
+++ b/tests/test_requests_html.py
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ def test_xpath():
     html = r.html.xpath('/html', first=True)
     assert 'no-js' in html.attrs['class']
 
+    a_hrefs = r.html.xpath('//a/@href')
+    assert '#site-map' in a_hrefs
+
 
 def test_html_loading():
     doc = """<a href='https://httpbin.org'>"""
@@ -77,4 +80,4 @@ def test_anchor_links():
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    test_anchor_links()
+    test_xpath()