From: Tom Verbeure <hombre@...>
Date: 2006-02-17T17:13:28+09:00
Subject: NWS-NOAA: accessing attributes with SOAP4R

Hi Ruby Guru's,

I've successfully retrieved data from the NWS weather server with the
example that was give at the following link:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/5fb9a1506ea46b2e

So far so good.

However, I'm only able to get text data, that is the data that's not
part of an XML tag. I did not find a way to access XML attributes.

E.g.: I have no problem to get the 'point1' information, indicated by
<location-key>, but I can find a way to get '

      <location>
         <location-key>point1</location-key>
         <point latitude="38.99" longitude="-77.99" />
      </location>
      <time-layout time-coordinate="local" summarization="none">
          <layout-key>k-p24h-n7-1</layout-key>

The closest I've gotten to see that the data is actually there is by
doing:

p data['location']['point'].__xmlattr

This prints something that lists 'latitude' and 'longitude'. But how do
I access the value itself?

p data['location']['point'].__xmlattr['latitude'] or
p data['location']['point'].latitude

doesn't work.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Tom