From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2008-02-13T03:10:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot strangeness

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:40:32AM +0900, D. Krmpotic wrote:
> Has anyone noticed the following gotcha/bug(?) with empty xml tags in
> hpricot: doc = Hpricot("<div><foo/><span>aaaa</span></div>")     ;
> doc.at("foo") => {elem <foo> {elem <span> "aaaa" </span>}} versus =>
> {emptyelem <foo>} for <foo></foo>
> 
> How to get around that?

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/HpricotXML

> thank you!
> david
--Greg