From: Lars Christensen <larsch@...>
Date: 2009-02-20T20:14:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ignoring Exceptions

On Feb 20, 11:14 am, Lin Wj <mailbox....@gmail.com> wrote:
> i am using hpricot to parse xml and place it into an object named 'x'
>
> some_variable = (x.at("some_element_name").innerHTML
>                  if x.at("some_element_name"))
>
> problem is i have a TON of"some_element_name" to assign
> and i dont want to do a if check for everyone of them
>
> is there anyway to do a straight
>
> some_variable = x.at("some_element_name").innerHTML
>
> any ideas ?

Make a function that does the work for you?

def html_from_element(x, name)
  elem = x.at(name)
  return elem && elem.innerHTML
end