Hi,
The following program:
require 'rexml/document’
require 'rexml/xpath’
require ‘pp’
doc = REXML::Document.new(’
’)
REXML::XPath.each(doc.root, ‘/program/item[@rnum=“1”]’) do |el|
puts el
end
produces:
Is this correct? I would have expected only the first item to be returned.
Cheers,
han.holl@pobox.com (Han Holl) wrote in message news:b93fa83f.0402220318.34dae140@posting.google.com…
Hi,
The following program:
…
produces:Is this correct? I would have expected only the first item to be returned.
Nope. That’s a bug. Thanks for finding that; in the future, you
might want to post the bug to the REXML bug page; I’m not reliable
about reading this newsgroup.
— SER
REXML is distributed with Ruby, so you’ll never be able to prevent
people from posting issues here, and nor should you. The only
reasonable process that can mitigate your lack of full attention to
this forum (which I’m not criticising) is to ask somebody else to keep
an eye out for you.
That, or set a mail/NG filter that copies messages matching /rexml/i to a
separate folder 
Cheers,
Gavin
On Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 7:04:48 AM, Sean wrote:
han.holl@pobox.com (Han Holl) wrote in message
news:b93fa83f.0402220318.34dae140@posting.google.com…Hi,
The following program:
…
produces:Is this correct? I would have expected only the first item to be returned.
Nope. That’s a bug. Thanks for finding that; in the future, you
might want to post the bug to the REXML bug page; I’m not reliable
about reading this newsgroup.
ser@germane-software.com (Sean Russell) wrote in message
Nope. That’s a bug. Thanks for finding that; in the future, you
might want to post the bug to the REXML bug page; I’m not reliable
about reading this newsgroup.— SER
Now that REXML is included in Ruby, I think (possible) bugs are of
interest to the readers of this list. I might try to crosspost in
the future, because it’s not possible for people interested in Ruby
to follow all specialized mailing lists.
The irony is that this bug is just the behaviour that I wanted!
Now I’ll have to find out how to use starts-with. I’m afraid I
don’t find XPath syntax to be very intuitive.
Cheers,
Han Holl
Gavin Sinclair gsinclair@soyabean.com.au wrote in message news:45477405382.20040224205833@soyabean.com.au…
Nope. That’s a bug. Thanks for finding that; in the future, you
might want to post the bug to the REXML bug page; I’m not reliable
about reading this newsgroup.REXML is distributed with Ruby, so you’ll never be able to prevent
people from posting issues here, and nor should you. The only
Oh, I couldn’t prevent people from posting here. What I’m saying is
that if you post your bug report to this newsgroup, it may be a long
while before I see it, and it may get lost entirely.
If someone wants to give me access to an NNTP server that carries this
newsgroup, with posting permissions, my ability to scan for bug
reports would improve. However, it is unlikely that anybody is going
to be successful at forcing me to spend more time trolling the
newsgroups for bug reports anytime soon.
REXML, like most open source projects, has an official bug reporting
mechanism. Bugs posted there have a much better chance of being
addressed.
reasonable process that can mitigate your lack of full attention to
this forum (which I’m not criticising) is to ask somebody else to keep
an eye out for you.
Are you volunteering? That is, after all, what Ruby (and REXML) is:
volunteer work. Things would be different if I were being paid for
this
— SER
han.holl@pobox.com (Han Holl) wrote in message news:b93fa83f.0402240345.2b9aa7f7@posting.google.com…
Now that REXML is included in Ruby, I think (possible) bugs are of
interest to the readers of this list. I might try to crosspost in
Yeah, that’s the downside to REXML in Ruby. There is a dedicated
REXML mailing list, a dedicated bug tracking system, and a dedicated
web page. There is a bunch of documentation that isn’t included in
the Ruby CVS system. I’m reluctant to cross-post from the REXML
mailing list to the newsgroup simply because I think there’s enough
noise in the group as it is; that wouldn’t solve the core problem that
people using REXML these days may not even realize that there exists a
separate forum for it.
The irony is that this bug is just the behaviour that I wanted!
Now I’ll have to find out how to use starts-with. I’m afraid I
don’t find XPath syntax to be very intuitive.
Yeah, XPath can be tricky, but it is pretty simple once you get the
hang of it, until you start doing complex filtering.
You had it almost right, though:
/program/item[ starts-with( @rnum ) = "1"]
— SER
Sean Russell wrote:
If someone wants to give me access to an NNTP server that carries this
newsgroup, with posting permissions, my ability to scan for bug
reports would improve. However, it is unlikely that anybody is going
Someone has kindly offered me access to their usenet server. If this email
makes it to the group, then I’m good to go.
–
REXML, like most open source projects, has an official bug reporting
mechanism. Bugs posted there have a much better chance of being
addressed.
Good point.
reasonable process that can mitigate your lack of full attention to
this forum (which I’m not criticising) is to ask somebody else to keep
an eye out for you.
Are you volunteering? That is, after all, what Ruby (and REXML) is:
volunteer work. Things would be different if I were being paid for
this
What about my other suggestion: create a mail folder that collects
only messages with /rexml/i in them?
Cheers,
Gavin
On Thursday, February 26, 2004, 12:29:51 AM, Sean wrote:
ser@germane-software.com (Sean Russell) wrote in message >
You had it almost right, though:
/program/item[ starts-with( @rnum ) = “1”]
You also had it almost right :
/program/item[ starts-with( @rnum, “1”)]
Cheers,
Han Holl