From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@...>
Date: 2002-09-12T10:36:07+09:00
Subject: Re: using REXML for XML document creation

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:19:14AM +0900, Ian Macdonald wrote:
> > 
> >   doc = REXML::Document.new
> >   elt = doc.add_element("ADDRESSBOOK")
> >   elt = elt.add_element("CONTACTS")
> >   elt = elt.add_element("CONTACT")
> >   elt.add_attribute("FileAs","Macdonald, Ian")
> 
> Actually, how do I add the next <CONTACT> element? If I just use
> add_element again, I get the next <CONTACT> nested inside the first
> one.

Well, it should be obvious that I used a bare minimum of variable names
for the sake of a minimal example. Surely you can figure out how to use
additional variable names, or a stack, or some other common device to
achieve the effect you want.

If that's not clear yet, a little experimentation should make it so.

-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, Colorado, USA
mgushee@havenrock.com
http://www.havenrock.com/