From: fuglyducky <fuglyducky@...>
Date: 2010-05-27T04:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: XML Generator/Merger

On May 26, 9:47 am, fuglyducky <fuglydu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Forget it...I got it. Nested for loops do the trick.