From: ser@... (Sean Russell)
Date: 2004-04-28T21:19:07+09:00
Subject: Re: rexml: how to get element type?

Mark Hubbart <discord@mac.com> wrote in message news:<874825E2-96EA-11D8-9038-000502FDD5CC@mac.com>...
> If I can jump in here... That last time I tried working with rexml, I 
> opened a medium sized xml file in irb. I created a new REXML::Document 
> IIRC, and it automatically inspected it, since it was the return value. 

Hm.  I do admit that #inspect on REXML objects is rather useless,
unless you're doing debugging.  I used it quite a bit when I was first
developing REXML.  I could truncate it and have it show something
like:

	<elem attr='val'> ... </elem>

Sort of a truncated XML representation.

--- SER