You have for example a table with two columns empid and empname, and want to use the value of the attribute empid of the current selected row in an El expression. To do that you must create an attribute binding for the current row attribute.
So, navigate to the PageDef file of your page, in binding press the + icon, choose in the combo: Generic Binding, and then choose AttributeValues, then select the data control of your view object and then choose the attribute to read the value from, in this case the empid.
Now you can use this El expression: #{bindings.empid.inputValue}, this expression is the value of attribute empid of the current selected row.