From: not <not@...>
Date: 2007-09-02T02:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML element reading <br /> error

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:57:57 +0900, John Butler wrote:

> When reading in the site element from my xml file using rexml it seems
> to be chopping the rest of the text off after the first <br/>

Not quite. It gives you the *first* text element.

> The value in the XML file is below
> <Site>123 street<br/>amstown<br/>amserland</Site>
> 
> element = REXML::XPath.first(doc, '//Site')
> 
> puts element.text #shows 123 Street
> 
> How can i get the full data and once i have it i can remove the <br/> I
> cant find any information on this?????

You can't find any specific info because there isn't anything specific. 
You have an XML element that contains a text node, an empty element named 
br, another text node, another empty element named br and another text 
node. In the XML world, <br/> is a node like any other.

The REXML::Element.texts method is what you are looking for:

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require "rexml/document"
=> true

irb(main):002:0> doc=REXML::Document.new("<Site>123 street<br/>amstown<br/
>amserland</Site>")
=> <UNDEFINED> ... </>

irb(main):003:0> doc.root.texts
=> ["123 street", "amstown", "amserland"]

irb(main):004:0> doc.root.texts.join " "
=> "123 street amstown amserland"


Enjoy!