From: fuglyducky <fuglyducky@...>
Date: 2010-05-27T01:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: XML Generator/Merger

On May 26, 9:42 am, fuglyducky <fuglydu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Before I get into this, I need to say that I am not a programmer and
> have very limited programming experience in any language, let alone
> Ruby. With that said, Ruby is the language I know the best (which
> really isn't saying much). Regardless...
>
> I have been working on a script that will take multiple predefined XML
> template files and merge them as needed. I was able to do this by:
>
> 1. Convert file1 XML into an array where each line is an element in
> the array
> 2. Convert entire file2 into a string and insert it into the second to
> last element in file1 array
> (this is to insert a subsection of XML inside the </close> tag of the
> file1 XML
>
> Example:
>
> file1:
> <header>
>     <somevalue/>
> </header>
>
> file2:
> <other>
>     <anothervalue/>
> </other>
>
> Merged:
> <header>
>     <somevalue/>
>     <other>
>         <anothervalue/>
>     </other>
> </header>
>
> This works perfectly. My problem is that I need to randomize the
> number of individual pieces like this...
>
> -single Header
> -multiple subElem1 (1+)
> -each subElem1 can contain multiple subElem2 (1+)
> -each subElem2 may contain multiple subElem3 and subElem4 (1+)
>
> Keep in mind that each section has a closing tag so I need a way to
> merge or insert and simply append. My thought was to create a
> multidimensional array and merge from the bottom up but I was
> wondering if there is a faster and/or cleaner way of doing this? It
> doesn't have to be pretty or fast.
>
> Does anyone have any idea on how I should/could proceed?
>
> Thanks!!!

Sorry...I was typing too fast...

Keep in mind that each section has a closing tag so I need a way to
merge or insert and NOT simply append.