From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-04-13T22:48:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot innerTEXT?

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:40:05PM +0900, chickenkiller wrote:
> doc = Hpricot(File.open("rdf.xhtml"))
> 
> puts (doc/"item"/"dc:subject").inner_text
> # html imported webpagedesign
> 
> (doc/"item").each do |t|
>    puts((t/"dc:subject").inner_text)
> end
> # html imported webpagedesign
> 
> (doc/"item").each do |t|
>    puts (t/"dc:subject").inner_text
> end
> # <dc:subject>html imported webpagedesign</dc:subject>
> # rdf.rb:12: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
> # rdf.rb:12: undefined method `inner_text' for nil:NilClass
> (NoMethodError)
> # from rdf.rb:11:in `each'
> # from rdf.rb:11
> 
> I am wondering where the difference is between the two last blocks.
> Any ideas?

Hmm, looks like this should be something that can be replicated without
hpricot.

$ cat x.rb
x = 3
puts (x-5).abs

1.times do
  puts (x-5).abs
end
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux]
$ ruby x.rb
x.rb:5: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
2
-2
x.rb:5: undefined method `abs' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
        from x.rb:4
$ 

Congratulations, I think you've found a bug in the parser :-) I'll post this
example to ruby-core.

Regards,

Brian.