From: "Charlie B." Date: 2013-04-06T00:16:18+09:00 Subject: Best way to strip XML header/tag I have a very basic web service written in C# that runs some stuff and spits back in XML a hash that is different depending on what parameters I send. The format of the return info I am getting looks like this: STUFF_THAT_I_WANT� How do I parse this to only strip out the STUFF_THAT_I_WANT section? Is this a job for xml-simple? I don't think gsub is the right tool here. Thanks for any help. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.