From: John W Higgins <wishdev@...>
Date: 2009-12-01T03:51:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd puts behaviour with REXML

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Morning Again David,

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:43 AM, David Sainte-claire <
dsainteclaire@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

The ampersand messes things up because if you confuse the parser then how is
it supposed to figure out where the end of the support element is? XML is
sort of a "it works or it doesn't" concept most of the time. Not much wiggle
room for the most part.

John

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