From: Kouhei Sutou <kou@...>
Date: 2009-09-22T08:29:59+09:00
Subject: Re: RSS Parser Help..

Hi,

In <8a1c683053d981d86fb3dcea416ca87d@ruby-forum.com>
  "RSS Parser Help.." on Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:21:36 +0900,
  Gim Ick <gimmickivek@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to parse a rss file.  I use the rss module to do it.
> 
> Suppose this is the data file,
> 
>   <item>
>       <title>Singapore Airlines Asia Travel - A345 All Business Class to
> Asia</title>
>       <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
>       <guid
> isPermaLink="false">http://delicious.com/url/cc78bfa8bb00f50825d7cac52339375d#galvezcreative</guid>
>       <link>http://a345.singaporeair.com/</link>
>       <dc:creator><![CDATA[galvezcreative]]></dc:creator>
>       <comments>http://delicious.com/url/cc78bfa8bb00f50825d7cac52339375d</comments>
>       <wfw:commentRss>http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/url/cc78bfa8bb00f50825d7cac52339375d</wfw:commentRss>
>       <source
> url="http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/galvezcreative">galvezcreative's
> bookmarks</source>
>       <category
> domain="http://delicious.com/galvezcreative/">Industry-Airlines</category>
>       <category
> domain="http://delicious.com/galvezcreative/">marketing</category>
>     </item>
> 
> How do I parse to get value in category( In the above example it is
> Industry-Airlines and marketing).

  rss.items[0].categories.each do |category|
    p category.content
  end

> When i try rss.items[0].category , I get the entire element( In the
> above case, <category
> domain="http://delicious.com/galvezcreative/">Industry-Airlines</category>)

rss.items[0].category returns Category object not "<category
...>...</category>" string. (Hint: Category object has #to_s
method that returns "<category ...>...</category>" string)

Thanks,
--
kou