Normally attributes that are parsed by SQLDOM are stored in the table #tblDOMAttributes (which can be joined to table #tblDOM via the DEID column).
In HTML 4, "selected" is really supposed to be attributes like this:
<option selected="selected">My Option</option>
SQLDOM has not support parsing out attributes that are not in the form of "name=value". Consequently, SQLDOM has not parsed out the selected attribute in someting like:
<option selected>My Option</option>
Back in the old days (HTML 2, and possibly HTML 3.2), "selected" with no value was allowed.
Based on your request I modified SQLDOM and posted an updated version (.924) that parses out these old-fashioned quasi-attributes with no values. Please download version .924 from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sqldom/files/
Once you parse your HTML with version .924 you will be able to retrieve the selected options with something like this:
EXEC #spactDOMLoad @HTML = '<html><body>Hello World.<option selected>Try this</option></body></html>'
SELECT
dom.Tag,
dom.ID,
txt.TextData,
attr.Name,
attr.Value
FROM
#tblDOM dom
LEFT JOIN #tblDOM txt ON
dom.DEID = txt.ParentDEID AND
txt.TextData IS NOT NULL
LEFT JOIN #tblDOMAttribs attr ON
dom.DEID = attr.DEID