From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2012-04-14T05:48:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with Classes and XML

There are XML parsers that are easier to use than REXML, namely
Nokogiri. [http://rubygems.org/gems/nokogiri]

Personally, if I had to parse this, I'd use xml-simple:
[http://rubygems.org/gems/xml-simple]. There may be cases where
"heavy" class-based structure is better, but IMO usually it isn't :)

This script:

require 'xmlsimple'
require 'pp'
pp XmlSimple.xml_in File.read 'xml.xml' # xml.xml is your input file

Outputs:

{"Expiration"=>["3/23/2012 5:00:00 PM"],
 "Email"=>["user@email.com"],
 "PackageID"=>["875bbfd0-25d6-441d-9772-7e0228785076"],
 "Source"=>
  [{"URL"=>["ftp://ftp.ftpserver.com/Media/12-0000/"],
    "UserName"=>["user"],
    "Password"=>["pass"],
    "LPath"=>["/Media/12-0000/"],
    "FileName"=>["file1.mov"]},
   {"URL"=>["ftp://ftp.archiveserver.com/Media/11-0000/"],
    "UserName"=>["user1"],
    "Password"=>["pass1"],
    "LPath"=>["/Media/11-0000/"],
    "FileName"=>["file2.pdf"]}]}


-- Matma Rex