From: Anthony Pearson <ant@...>
Date: 2008-08-28T23:47:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot query

hpricot isn't quite friendly with namespaces from what I have tried
before (unsure about the current version). Did you tried doing a full
xpath query?

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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Mark <markjturner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I have a question about Hpricot:
>
> I'm trying to parse an XML document (a google calendar feed), but I
> have problems when I try to get attributes of a tag with a namespace
> (ie: a colon).
>
> Here's my code for this: date =
> entry.at('gd:when').attributes['startTime']
>
> Instead of having the expected time returned I just get 'nil'.
>
> Anyone know why this is? Or how to get it to work properly?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Mark
>
>