From: "Charlie B." <lists@...>
Date: 2012-12-19T05:27:38+09:00
Subject: Need helping parsing XML data retrieved from rest call

I wrote a web service in C#/ASP and published in IIS.  This web service
performs a function for Windows servers during the build process.  I
need the client to make the web call and grab the auto-generated GUID
that is returned from the service and write it to a text file.  However
I am having issues pulling out just what I need.

Here is an example of the data returned from the call, which is done
using rest-client in Ruby:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<string xmlns="companyname.confidential.automation">THIS IS THE DATA I
NEED TO KEEP FROM THIS WEB CALL</string>

How do I pull out JUST the bolded stuff above?  Note there are no spaces
in the GUID that is generated.

I don't believe xmlsimple will do what I want.

I'd rather avoid using something like str.sub(target, '') on this kind
of call because of obvious reasons.  I am open to any suggestions.
Thanks!

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