From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-01-27T04:15:23+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML: stream parsing question

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:13:12AM +0900, Markus Jais wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have this piece of code:
> 
> require "rexml/document"
> include REXML
> 
> class MyListener
>    def tag_start name, attrs
>           print "start name: ",name.strip, "\n"
>           print "start attrs: ",attrs, "\n"
>    end
>    def tag_end name
>           puts "end: ", name.strip, "\n"
>    end
> 
>    def text(text)
>         print "text: ", text.strip, "\n"
>    end
>         
>    def method_messing(methId)
>           puts methId.idname
>    end
> end
> ml = MyListener.new
> Document.parse_stream(File.new("bla.xml"), ml)
> 
> it works just fine:
> but when I comment the 
> def text(text)
> method out, I get the following error:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rexml/text.rb:76:in `parse_stream': 
> undefined method `text' for #<MyListener:0x40230480> (NameError)
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rexml/element.rb:394:in 
> `parse_stream'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rexml/document.rb:179:in 
> `parse_stream'
>         from ./stream.rb:29
> 
> does anybody know what I did wrong. I thought it would jump into
> "method_messing".
> I have REXML 1.2.5
> 
> markus

You have a typo on "method_messing".  It should be method_missing.

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