From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-06-26T10:04:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading XML docs (Ruby/Rails)

Kyle Heon wrote:
> I'm pretty new to Ruby and Rails so I apologize if this has always been
> discussed here.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how to open an xml document and work with the data,
> specifically using XPath statements.
> 
> I wasn't really successful looking for info on how to do this. Are there any
> built-in classes (Ruby and/or Rails) that I can read up on? If not, what
> about third party parsers?

Ruby includes REXML as part of the standard lib.

It includes XPath, so you can load a document and select content via 
XPath expressions.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rexml/rdoc/

James


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