From: messju mohr <messju@...>
Date: 2004-05-12T19:14:37+09:00
Subject: Re: xml-beginner

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:53:59PM +0900, Martin Uruz wrote:
> hi all
> i hav a little beginner problem:
> i use rexml on ruby 1.8
> and the following xml:
> <tagebuch>
> 	<monat id="3">
> 		<eintrag>
> 			<datum>12.3.2004</datum>
> 			<text>text ist das</text>
> 			<imagelink>/imqqqqqest.gif</imagelink>
> 		</eintrag>
> 	</monat>
> 	<monat id="4">
>          .............
> </tagebuch>
> 
> ans i try to access the datum with this code
> doc.elements.each("tagebuch/monat/eintrag") { |element| puts 
> element.elements["datum"]}
> 
> and i get
> <datum>12.3.2004</datum>
> ......
> must i strip the tags with a regex ? i think there must be a better way 
> to do this.

element.elements["datum"].text gives you the first child text-element.
 
> -- 
> thx
> martin pfeffer
> at
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> Apache 2.0
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