From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-07-01T01:48:08+09:00
Subject: Re: is it possible to create a hash dynamically?

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:32 PM, aidy <aidy.lewis@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build a dynamic hash map
>
> <CODE>
>  def extract(xml, path)
>      require 'rexml/document'
>      xml = xml.to_s.gsub("utf-16", "utf-8")
>      doc = REXML::Document.new(xml)
>      doc.root.each_element(path) do |element|
>          element.each_element do |node|
>          puts "name: #{node.name} text: #{node.text}"
>          @xml_data = {node.name => node.text}
>        end
>      end
>      return @xml_data
>    end
> </CODE>
>
> However, the @xml_data is always returning 1 element


def extract(xml, path)
     require 'rexml/document'
     xml = xml.to_s.gsub("utf-16", "utf-8")
     doc = REXML::Document.new(xml)
     xml_data  = {}
     doc.root.each_element(path) do |element|
         element.each_element do |node|
         puts "name: #{node.name} text: #{node.text}"
         xml_data[node.name] = <http://node.name/>node.text
       end
     end
     return xml_data
   end




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