From: Manfred <manfred.hansen@...>
Date: 2003-03-03T16:54:43+09:00
Subject: Re: libxml and umlauts

Hi,

my first solution. 

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require "xml/libxml"
require "iconv"

xd = XML::Document.file('./bill.xml')
icon = Iconv.new('ISO-8859-1','UTF-8')
puts icon.iconv(xd.find('/BILLITEM/PRODUCT_NAME').to_a[0].to_s)

Maybe someone find a better solution?

Manfred Hansen

> Hi,
> 
> i have try my first steps with libxml.
> 
> The first problem i need the german umlauts (���..).
> The second, i will get only one  element like
> "werte.elements["//INVOICE_NO"].text" in REXML
> 
> Here my files:
> bill.xml
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <BILLITEM>
> <PRODUCT_NAME>Anschlu�</PRODUCT_NAME>
> </BILLITEM>
> 
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> require "xml/libxml"
> 
> xp = XML::Parser.new()
> xd = XML::Document.file('./bill.xml')
> xd.encoding='ISO-8859-1'
> 
> werte = xd.find('/BILLITEM/PRODUCT_NAME')
> werte.each do |n|
>         puts n   # Anschlu� not �
> end
> 
> Manfred Hansen