From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-11-24T23:55:02+09:00
Subject: Re: check if a element with a specific value exists in a xml using REXML

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:49 PM, mythpills p. <mithunpillay@gmail.com> wrote:
> i have attached a sample xml. I am currently using REXML ..basically i
> want to check if a element with a specific value exists in XML using our
> REXML processor?
> for e.g. lets say i want to find if there is a node which holds this
> value =>  "content/t1/st_4/page2.swf" and return true (as a node does
> exist in the attached xml with the above value)
>
> Help!

http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html

e.g.

//file[text()="content/t1/st_4/page2.swf"]

Btw, nokogiri is usually faster than REXML.

Kind regards

robert

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