From: mike@... (Mike Stok)
Date: 2003-05-03T04:48:14+09:00
Subject: Re: chomp'ing REXML:Element.text

In article <slrnbb5ftt.2cv.usenet@home.andreas-s.net>,
Andreas Schwarz  <usenet@andreas-s.net> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm using the following code to read and chomp the content of a few
>elements from REXML. The problem is that I get an exception when an
>element is empty (<element></element>) because .text returns nil then.
>How can I solve this problem without writing large if-constructions?
>
>@company = customer.elements["company"].text.chomp
>@salutation =customer.elements["salutation"].text.chomp
>[...]


You can use a rescue e.g.

  @salutation =customer.elements["salutation"].text.chomp rescue ''

but there may be better ways of doing it.

Hope this helps,

Mike
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