From: transfire@...
Date: 2006-07-08T23:39:09+09:00
Subject: Re: rexml: replace several text nodes by a single one


Pete wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this sounds simple but I just don't get it...
>
> I want to replace the text child nodes of an REXML::Element by a new,
> single text node...
>
> In order to do that, I want to remove any previous text nodes first

OMG, I was just about to ask the same thing. I was trying to  delete
them all first, but I don;t even get how to do that:

  node.parent.delete( node )  # soden;t seem to to work

Do I really have to do

  case node
  when REXML::Element
    node.parent.delete_element( node )
  when REXML::Attribute
    node.parent.delete_element( node )
  when REXML::Text
    node.parent.delete_text( node )
  else
     # else ?
  end

Tell me it ain't so!

T.