From: Kouhei Sutou <kou@...> (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCP1xGIzh5Sj8bKEI=?=)
Date: 2003-01-11T01:19:16+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML and XPath Confusion

From: Mark Probert <probertm@nortelnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: REXML and XPath Confusion
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 00:03:37 +0900
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030110095500.00b2eb98@zcard04k.ca.nortel.com>

>     panels = XPath.match( doc, "//panel/attribute::name" )
> 
> Appears to return an array of strings.  When I do "panels.each"
> it seems to be just strings.

Really?
How about using Object#class?
# I wrote in [ruby-talk:61021] ;-)

panels.each do |panel|
  p panel.class
end

> 				When I do "p panels" it doesn't
> appear to be strings.

When you use puts you look REXML::Attribute#to_s.
When you use p you look REXML::Attribute#inspect.
Both are String.

> 			 And I can't match against strings.

You can get a unnormalized attribute value as String
by using REXML::Attribute#value.
You can get a normalized attribute value as String
by using REXML::Attribute#to_s.

Regards,

kou