From: Adam Sanderson Date: 2006-01-13T02:48:05+09:00 Subject: Re: Finding a sentence (more than one word & punctuation (, . ;)) in a string? A quick scan says that you've got legit xml there, why not use REXML? It's included in the ruby standard libs. Or any of the above html/xml parsing libraries with xpath to pluck your values out. REXML Docs: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/ REXML Homepage: http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml .adam