From: "Kroeger, Simon (ext)" <simon.kroeger.ext@...>
Date: 2006-05-08T18:32:41+09:00
Subject: Re: new to Ruby and XML

Hi Hunter,

quick and dirty:

Hash[*xml.scan(%r{>([^>]*)</f>}).flatten]

returns

{"12"=>"AAF",
 "7"=>"AAE",
 "13"=>"AAG",
 "8"=>"AAA",
 "9"=>"ISA",
 "1"=>"AAA",
 "2"=>"AAB",
 "4"=>"AAC",
 "5"=>"AAD"}

cheers

Simon

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> Subject: new to Ruby and XML
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an API call to another database app that returns the XML below:
> 
> <records>        <record>          <f id='3'>9</f>          <f 
> id='8'>ISA</f>        </record>        <record>          <f 
> id='3'>8</f> 
> <f id='8'>AAA</f>        </record>        <record>          <f 
> id='3'>1</f>          <f id='8'>AAA</f>        </record>      
>   <record> 
> <f id='3'>2</f>          <f id='8'>AAB</f>        </record> 
> <record>          <f id='3'>4</f>          <f id='8'>AAC</f> 
> </record>        <record>          <f id='3'>5</f>          <f 
> id='8'>AAD</f>        </record>        <record>          <f 
> id='3'>7</f> 
> <f id='8'>AAE</f>        </record>        <record>          <f 
> id='3'>12</f>          <f id='8'>AAF</f>        </record> 
> <record>          <f id='3'>13</f>          <f id='8'>AAG</f> 
> </record>      </records>
> 
> I'd like to loop through each of these records and create a 
> hash.  The 
> first value of each record being the key and the second being 
> the value 
> in the hash.
> 
> Any ideas?  Thank you for helping a noob!
> 
> -Hunter
> 
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