From: Mike Dalessio <mike.dalessio@...>
Date: 2010-01-12T22:56:40+09:00
Subject: Re: XML Manipulating

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Hi Anandh,

I've cross-posted my reply to nokogiri-talk, which is where followup
questions are probably best sent.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Anandh Kumar
<anandhthiyagarajan@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
This is straightforward if you know some XPath (see
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath) and Nokogiri.

I've posted a solution at:

http://gist.github.com/275209

The general idea is that we find the nodes we care about, and then build a
new document with those contents.

Cheers,
-mike

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