From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-07-20T04:52:41+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML Input File Question

On 19.07.2010 21:13, Mike Pe wrote:
> So I am having issues parsing in a document using the Ruby XML parser
> REXML. The issue seems to be with the first line of my file that
> identifies the XML file.
>
> Here are two xml files, the first is not parsed with REXML and the
> second is parsed properly:
>
> error =<<EOF
>       <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
>       <document test="yes">
>       </document>
> EOF

The string is most likely not UTF-16 encoded so REXML cannot parse it 
properly.  Which Ruby version?  If it is 1.9ish you'll find information 
about i18n here:
http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/understanding_m17n

> noerror =<<EOF
>       <document test="yes">
>       </document>
> EOF
>
> When I try to parse in the information from "error", REXML does not read
> any of the attributes or elements.
>
>
> doc = Document.new error
> puts doc.root.attributes["test"] -->  nil
>
> doc = Document.new noerror
> puts doc.root.attributes["test"] -->  yes
>
> I considered the fact that REXML only takes in UTF-8 unicoded files, but
> when I convert these files from UTF-16 to UTF-8, it still does not parse
> properly.
>
> Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Thank you very Much.

Can you show what exactly you did?

Kind regards

	robert

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