From: Dejan Dimic <dejan.dimic@...>
Date: 2008-09-27T05:14:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Merge XML documents with Ruby

On Sep 26, 9:51 pm, Mark Thomas <m...@thomaszone.com> wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2:04 pm, Harm <harmaa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Dear group,
>
> > Currently I'm working with Ruby to merge several XML documents into
> > one. I'm using Builder to construct the 'master' XML file:
>
> >     x = Builder::XmlMarkup.new(:indent => 2)
> >     x.instruct! :xml, :version => "1.0", :encoding => "UTF-8"
> >     result = x.header do |xml|
> >       some_hash.each do |key, values|
> >         xml.company(key)
> >         values.each do |value|
> >           xml.department(value.to_xml)
> >         end
> >       end
> >     end
>
> > However on the spot where I write 'xml.department' trouble strikes.
> > The 'value' already responds to the to_xml method and generates
> > perfectly fine XML.
>
> You didn't give us much to go on. What objects does the some_hash
> contain? Do you have sample output?
>
> -- Mark.

Have you try the hpricot (http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/) ?

Generate your xml snippets and then merge them in one final valid xml.

Nevertheless, it would be useful to have more details.