From: rb <rb@...>
Date: 2007-01-02T03:05:10+09:00
Subject: Re: XML - converting from one feed to another (beginner)

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:40:18 +0900, James Britt
<james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:

>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).

[...]

>For example, with Hpricot (which  you can install as a gem):
>
>require 'hpricot'
>
>src_dom = Hpricot(source_rss_xml).
>
>src_dom/'//item'.each do |el|
>    title     = (item/'title').text
>    title_url = (item/'title_url').text
>    #  ...
>    # Now build the new item element for the target XML
>    # and add it to the accumulating content
>end

Thanks... it's working so far, but I had to use this syntax:

title = (el/'title').text