From: rb <rb@...>
Date: 2006-12-30T04:50:10+09:00
Subject: Re: XML - converting from one feed to another (beginner)

On 29 Dec 2006 11:12:41 -0800, "bill walton" <bill.walton@charter.net>
wrote:

>Hi rb,
>
>rb wrote:
>> I'm trying to read an XML feed of products and convert them to a
>> different XML feed to upload to Froogle (Google Base).
>>
>> How do I read the lines of XML and then rewrite them in the new XML?
>> I've started with rexml, but I'm not sure if I'm on the right track.
>
>Depending on whether or not you want to make further use of the content
>of your XML feed within your Ruby / Rails app (i.e., you actually
>*want* the info stored in a database) you might be better off just
>doing the transform using XSLT.

Thanks... I didn't think of that.  I will have to learn XSLT.  For
now, I have to finish this XML for Google Base by tomorrow so I'm
going to try to finish it with Ruby.  Might try XSLT next.