diff --git a/requests_html.py b/requests_html.py
index 08d2370..d4ba93f 100644
--- a/requests_html.py
+++ b/requests_html.py
@@ -136,12 +136,13 @@ class BaseParser:
         :class:`Element <Element>` found.
         """
         selected = self.lxml.xpath(selector)
-        try:
-            c = [Element(element=e, url=self.url, default_encoding=_encoding or self.encoding) for e in selected]
-            # Sanity check.
-            [e.keys for e in c]
-        except AttributeError:
-            c = selected
+        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)
 
         if first:
             try:
diff --git a/tests/test_requests_html.py b/tests/test_requests_html.py
index c2c9ad7..8a3c871 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')
+    print(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()