From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-09-17T00:13:21+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML advice - output

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Stuart Clarke
<stuart.clarke1986@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I would like to pick your brains about Rexml and how to report from it.
> For example, I am reading an XML file using references to each XML tag
> like so:
>
> doc.root.each_element("/UserData/List/ItemInfo/Title") {|e|
>  report.puts "Title: #{e.text}"
> }
> doc.root.each_element("/UserData/List/ItemInfo/Date") {|e|
>  report.puts "Date: #{e.text}"
> }
>
> The 'report.puts' writes this data out to a CSV file. At present I get a
> list of all the titles in the XML file followed a list of the dates.
> What I need it to get the side by side in a CSV file like so
>
> Title             Date
> Item1             20th Jan 2009
> Item2             12th Feb 2010
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on a suitable workflow for this?

Just iterate over all "ItemInfo" elements and print values from sub
elements (which you can select via a relative XPath).

Kind regards

robert

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