From: Sandy Thomson <rhubarbcrumble@...>
Date: 2009-03-18T04:00:02+09:00
Subject: Re: XML to CSV with REXML - I'm sure this should be easy...

matt neuburg wrote:
> Sandy Thomson <rhubarbcrumble@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> ..but, whilst it works for one event with multiple dates, as soon as I
>> add a second event it iterates through all of the dates against every
>> event, so for 2 events each with 2 dates it outputs 8 lines...
> 
> Cool! :)
> 
>> xml.elements.each("//event") do |e|
>>   e.elements.each("//performance") do |p|
> 
> Yeah, sorry about that. I wasn't thinking about the XPath here.
> Obviously "//performance" is wrong. I shoulda said
> "descendant::performance" or "performances/performance" or similar.
> 
> Of course one could also argue that Ruby and REXML are more heavyweight
> than you need; you're just dumpster-diving in simple XML and outputting
> text, so you could write this whole thing as an XSLT template. Choices,
> choices...!
> 
> m.

Choices indeed, but it works perfectly now so I'll go with it :)

Thanks!
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