From: David Sainte-claire <dsainteclaire@...>
Date: 2009-12-01T03:43:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd puts behaviour with REXML

John W Higgins wrote:
> Morning David,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:19 AM, David Sainte-claire <
> dsainteclaire@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> searched for, but here I get something like this when I loop through the
>> to be just normal text to me.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?  It looks like something that REXML is doing
>> since it outputs the path to the element in the document Product -->
>> Support but I don't have a clue where the _Link is coming from?
>>
>>
> Rule one of anything like this is to remove each element from the XML 
> file
> one by one and see which one is breaking you. In this case you will find
> that it's the link element because you are using ampersands in the URL. 
> See
> here
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/guidelines.html#C_12
> 
> John

Thanks for the help, in terms of how to narrow it down, but if I change 
my XPATH statement to look more like this:

    data.elements.each("product/profile/support/title"){|element|
      puts element.text
    }

Where product is the root note, and I'm only pulling out the title 
element, I still get output that looks like this:

???Product_Support_Link_Title???

Can the link element be messing up my XPATH query even though I'm not 
looking at that element?
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