Reading XML docs (Ruby/Rails)

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I'm pretty new to Ruby and Rails so I apologize if this has always been
discussed here.

I'm trying to figure out how to open an xml document and work with the data,
specifically using XPath statements.

I wasn't really successful looking for info on how to do this. Are there any
built-in classes (Ruby and/or Rails) that I can read up on? If not, what
about third party parsers?

Thanks in advance!

Kyle Heon
kheon@comcast.net

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Kyle Heon wrote:

I'm pretty new to Ruby and Rails so I apologize if this has always been
discussed here.

I'm trying to figure out how to open an xml document and work with the data,
specifically using XPath statements.

I wasn't really successful looking for info on how to do this. Are there any
built-in classes (Ruby and/or Rails) that I can read up on? If not, what
about third party parsers?

Ruby includes REXML as part of the standard lib.

It includes XPath, so you can load a document and select content via XPath expressions.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rexml/rdoc/

James

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