From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-13T02:05:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Cutting a piece of text

Dňa Nedeľa 12 Február 2006 17:18 Zdebel napísal:
> Helo !
> I've started to learn ruby and I'm amazed with it. Now I have a problem
> that I can't solve. If I have a string like this:
> "<lyrics artist=XXX album=XXX title=XXX> Lalalalala </lyrics>" how can I
> cut the " artist=XXX album=XXX title=XXX" part, so it would look like:
> "<lyrcis> Lalalalala </lyrics>" Could you please help me ?

The very geeky, and most probably least error-prone way would be whacking the 
string with a DOM parser, clearing the attributes, and then printing it out 
again. Unfortunately, I haven't been doing any DOM manipulation in Ruby, so I 
can't provide code.

David Vallner