From: Anthony Pearson Date: 2008-08-29T00:45:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Hpricot query Actually google calander has a ruby plugin/api located here http://googlecalendar.rubyforge.org/plugins/doc/ If that's not your flavor you can start with hpricot's documentation on xpaths here http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/wiki/SupportedXpathExpressions On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Mark wrote: > On Aug 28, 3:47 pm, Anthony Pearson 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 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 > >