From: Damphyr <damphyr@...>
Date: 2005-09-28T17:47:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [REXML]  Wierd behaviour with Date

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Damphyr wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
snip
>> 
>>>> Date.strptime(date_txt,"%d.%m.%Y")
>> 
>> 
>> => #<Date: 4906577/2,0,2299161>
>> 
>> What did you do?
>> 
> That's my question. And I think I found it: If I do class Article 
> include REXML ... ... end
> 
> I get the error with strptime.
> 
> If I use REXML::Document and don't include, then everything is fine. 
> So REXML does something to Date. 
 > I run ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

Since I cannot duplicate the problem in irb with a simple include, 
here's the code that duplicates this, maybe someone can see what's wrong.
Cheers,
V.-



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���<article>
	<title>Title</title>
	<date>10.05.06</date>
	<language>el</language>
	<text>Some text in UTF8, ������������</text>
</article>
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require 'rexml/document'
class Article
	include REXML
	ITEM_TITLE="title"
	ITEM_CREATION="date"
	ITEM_TEXT="text"
	ITEM_LASTMODIFIED="lastmodified"
	attr_reader :language,:text,:title,:created,:section,:filename,:last_modified
	attr_writer :section
	def initialize title,filename,text,creation_date,lastmodified="",language="el"
		@title=title
		@filename=filename
		@text=text
		@created=creation_date
		@last_modified=last_modified
		@language=language
		@section=""
	end

	def to_s
		return "#{@created} - #{@title}"
	end
	#Creates an Article instance from an XML file
	#
	# Raises BadArticleException if the file is malformed
	def Article.generate filename
		begin 
			xmldoc=Document.new( File.new(filename) )
			filename=File.basename(filename).chomp(".xml")
			title=xmldoc.root.elements[ITEM_TITLE].collect{|el|
				el.to_s
			}.join
			date_txt=xmldoc.root.elements[ITEM_CREATION].text
			#convert the date 
			begin
				created=Date.strptime(date_txt,"%d.%m.%Y")
			rescue ArgumentError
			end
			text=xmldoc.root.elements[ITEM_TEXT].collect{|el|
				el.to_s
			}.join
			language="el"
			lastmodified=created
			begin 
				lastmodified_txt=xmldoc.root.elements[ITEM_LASTMODIFIED].text  
				if lastmodified_txt
					begin
						lastmodified=Date.strptime(lastmodified_txt,"%d.%m.%Y")
					rescue ArgumentError
						lastmodified=Date.new
					end
				end	
			end if xmldoc.root.elements[ITEM_LASTMODIFIED]
			return Article.new(title,filename,text,created,lastmodified,language)
		#rescue
		#	raise BadArticleException.new(filename,$!)
		end
	end
end

puts Article.generate("example.xml")
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