From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2011-04-11T16:56:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading XML to relational tables

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Ted Flethuseo <flethuseo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jesus,
>
> Thank you for your help. Right now I am stuck trying to traverse the
> elements in a single xml::element. I know I can use this elements method
> to list the elements, but I am not sure how
> I can traverse through them and get their contents individually.
>
> xml = File.read('translateXML.xml')
> doc = Nokogiri::XML(xml)
>
> # split into sentences first
> arr = doc.search('p')

Try something like:

require 'nokogiri'

doc = Nokogiri::XML(File.read("p.xml"))
doc.search("p").each do |p_element|
  puts "---------"
  puts p_element.text
  p_element.css("emph,strong").each do |emph|
    puts "Highlighted: #{emph.text}"
  end
end

Jesus.