From: Mark <markjturner@...>
Date: 2008-08-28T23:55:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot query

On Aug 28, 3:47 pm, Anthony Pearson <a...@serialtactics.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> @
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Mark <markjtur...@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

Hi Anthony, I haven't I must admit, unfortunately I'm not really
familiar with xpath and I don't know how to find the tag I need with
it, if anybody knows how to do that I'd be very grateful for some
pointers!

Thanks,

Mark