From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2010-01-12T21:01:56+09:00
Subject: Re: XML Manipulating

El Martes, 12 de Enero de 2010, Anandh Kumar escribió:
> Hi everybody
> 
>         Can anybody there help me in solving the following issue.
> 
> Consider the XML
> 
>       <row>
>          <column>Business Strategy</column>
>          <column>bus1</column>
>       </row>
>       <row>
>          <column>Company Description</column>
>          <column>tar1</column>
>       </row>
>       <row>
>           <column>Business Strategy</column>
>           <column>bus2</column>
>       </row>
>       <row>
>           <column>Company Description</column>
>           <column>tar2</column>
>       </row>
>       <row>
>          <column>Business Strategy</column>
>          <column>bus3</column>
>       </row>
>       <row>
>          <column>Company Description</column>
>          <column>tar3</column>
>       </row>
> 
> Can this xml be parsed and manipulated in ruby as
> 
>       <row>
>          <column>Business Strategy</column>
>          <column>bus1</column>
>          <column>bus2</column>
>          <column>bus3</column>
>       </row>
>       <row>
>          <column>Company Description</column>
>          <column>tar1</column>
>          <column>tar2</column>
>          <column>tar3</column>
>       </row>
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Of course it can be manipulated to get your desired output. You must use a XML 
parser (I recommend Nokogiri), inspect the XML by extracting/moving the nodes 
you are interested in and generating the new XML.


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