From: Peter Fitzgibbons <peter.fitzgibbons@...>
Date: 2005-10-22T01:17:12+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML::XPath results out of sort order ?

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On 10/21/05, daz <dooby@d10.karoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Peter Fitzgibbons wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I need a reality check here,
> > given this xml : http://rafb.net/paste/results/iziEQI77.html
> >
> > this test :
> > mi =3D XPath.match(@xml,
> '//HomesiteTree/Builder/Division/Workflow/Milestone')
> > assert_equal '10', mi[0].elements['MsMilestoneId'].text
> >
> > fails with :
> > 2) Failure:
> > test_enrollmentMilestones(EnrollmentTest)
> > [C:/ruby/dev/BuildviewExtractor/test/functional/enrollment_test.rb:64]:
> > <"10"> expected but was <"80">.
> >
> >
> > Is XPath.match returning results out of order ?
> >
> > Am I missing something ?
> >
>
> Sean has made lots of changes in the later version (see this post):
>
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/154866?1547=
14-156516
>
>
> My quick test came up empty using this snippet on your data -
> (maybe I got something wrong):
>
> require 'rexml/document'
> p REXML::Version #-> "3.1.3"
> xml =3D REXML::Document.new('D:\ruby\DfB\TEMP\clruby\___test.xml')
> mi =3D REXML::XPath.match(xml,
> '//HomesiteTree/Builder/Division/Workflow/Milestone')
>
> p mi #-> []
>
>
> > Thanks for your advice.
> >
> > Peter Fitzgibbons
>
>
> Hope it's useful ...
>
> daz
>
>
>
>
> You have to File.open the file... Document.new doesn't know how to open
the stream.. only how to read it.

please try :

xml =3D REXML::Document.new(File.open('D:\ruby\DfB\TEMP\clruby\__
>
> _test.xml') )

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