With xmllint/xpath, parse out the value of several attributes

For a given xml file called configurations.xml I would like to extract the value of each conf element, and store it in a variable for later use.

<configurations>
  <conf name="bob"/>
  <conf name="alice"/>
  <conf name="ted"/>
  <conf name="carol"/>
</configurations>

The expected output is:

bob
ailce
ted
carol

I have xpath and xmllint available. A xpath of //conf/@name gets the nodes, but outputs as name="bob", which is what I'm trying to avoid.