REXML is a conformant XML processor for the Ruby programming language. REXML is included in the standard library of Ruby.
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How to get the absolute node path in XML using XPath and Ruby?
Basically I want to extract the absolute path from a node to root and report it to the console or a file. Below is the current solution:
require "rexml/document"
include REXML
def get_path(xml_doc, key)
XPath.each(xml_doc, key) do |node|
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How to get tags that don't have specific ancestor and descendant using REXML
I'd like to get A tags and the B tag from the following XML, but I want to remove the second A tag:
......many other tags.
abc
<<==== I want to remove this A tag from result.
def
foo
hoge
bar
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Writing namespaced XML with REXML
I'm working with some XML that involves multiple namespaces (specifically ResourceSync, which embeds namespaced tags in Sitemap documents).
When I create REXML elements, I can set a global namespace:
foo =…
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Ruby 2.2 Using REXML
I have followed much tutorials about Ruby 2.2 and REXML. This is an example of my xml:
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Injecting an XML fragment into the current document from an external file
I'm currently parsing an XML file using REXML and trying to come up with a way of inserting an XML fragment from an internal file.
Currently, I'm using some logic like the following:
doc.elements.each('//include') do |element|
handleInclude(…
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Is there a way of iterating through a specific XML tag in Ruby?
Is it possible to iterate over a specific XML tag in Ruby? In my case I want iterate over the desc tag in the following XML code:
2408
joe@silva.com
Today
Hello…
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Rake task updates a target differently than I expect
I've an xml file which I'm trying to update through a rake task. Following are the xml and rake files:
test.xml
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Loading UTF-16 xml document with REXML
Wondering if it is possible to load a utf-16 xml file with REXML 3.1.7.3 and ruby 1.9.3.
Here is the xml data in a file u16.xml w/o BOM:
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Rails sidekiq pass REXML::Element
I am attempting to send an REXML::element to a worker using sidekiq. However when I do so I get an error: ActiveSupport::JSON::Encoding::CircularReferenceError
In this case I am taking an XML document that is stored online and running one worker…
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error related to REXML
I'm not sure it's REXML or ruby issue.
But this is happening when I work with REXML.
The program below should access elements of each xml file in the directory.
#!/usr/bin/ruby -w
require 'rexml/document'
include REXML
p "Current directory was: "…
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Ruby: How to find XML child element from specific element using xpath?
Given xml
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Iterative Parsing XML
Just getting started with Ruby and have a newbie question re parsing XML. I'm trying REXML (yes, I know hpricot and others exist, but I am starting with REXML to learn.) The problem is how to iteratively proceed through a XML doc like this:
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How to loop through XML children nodes with Ruby REXML
I have a XML document that looks something like this:
1
100
pool
400
pluminbing
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how do I stop REXML from escaping characters?
I'm pulling a bunch of data from one database and feeding it into an application via XML.
So I start with
re_objects_xml = Document.new
re_objects_xml.context[:attribute_quote] = :quote
re_objects_xml.context[:raw] = 'true'
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