From: Chris Gallagher <cgallagher@...>
Date: 2006-11-24T19:42:31+09:00
Subject: Removing a tag from an xml document

Hi,

Im trying to convert part of a HTML document to REXML and its throwing 
it back at me due to the fact that the html document isnt valid XML due 
to one closing tag which doesnt have an opener.

heres the xml:

<table class="index" width="100%">
           <thead class="index-header">
          <tr class="header-row">
            <td><a class='sorted' 
href="/index.jsp?sort=project">Project</a></td
>
            <td><a class="sorted" href="/index.jsp?sort=status">Status 
<em>(sinc
e)</em></a></td>
            <td><a class="sorted" href="/index.jsp?sort=last 
failure">Last failu
re</a></td>
            <td><a class="sorted" href="/index.jsp?sort=last 
successful">Last su
ccessful</a></td>
            <td>Label</td>

            <td></td>

          </tr>
        </thead>


          <tbody>

            <tr class="odd-row ">
              <td class="data"><a 
href="buildresults/henry-mobile-server">henry-
mobile-server</a></td>
              <td class="data date status-dull">? <em>(10:05)</em></td>
              <td class="data date failure"></td>
              <td class="data date">09:31</td>
              <td class="data">build.19</td>


              <td class="data"><input id="force_henry-mobile-server" 
type="butto
n"
                                      onclick="callServer('http://etab-va:8000/i
nvoke?operation=build&objectname=CruiseControl+Project%3Aname%3Dhenry-mobile-ser
ver', 'henry-mobile-server')"
                                      value="Build"/></td>

            </tr>

          </tbody>

            <tr class="even-row ">
              <td class="data"><a 
href="buildresults/henry-mobile-server-nightly
-build">henry-mobile-server-nightly-build</a></td>
              <td class="data date status-dull">? <em>(10:05)</em></td>
              <td class="data date failure"></td>
              <td class="data date"></td>
              <td class="data"> </td>


              <td class="data"><input 
id="force_henry-mobile-server-nightly-buil
d" type="button"
                                      onclick="callServer('http://etab-va:8000/i
nvoke?operation=build&objectname=CruiseControl+Project%3Aname%3Dhenry-mobile-ser
ver-nightly-build', 'henry-mobile-server-nightly-build')"
                                      value="Build"/></td>

            </tr>

          </tbody>
          </table>

What i need to do is to strip out the final "</tbody>" tag from the 
file.

The html is being fethced using net/http and then that part of the page 
is being  extracted from the full page with the following line:

gathered_data = response.body[table_start_pos,height]

any ideas on how I should remove that tag?

Cheers,

Chris

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