REXML is a conformant XML processor for the Ruby programming language. REXML is included in the standard library of Ruby.
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Invalid characters before my XML in Ruby
When I look in an XML file, it looks fine, and starts with
But when I read it in Ruby and print it to stout, there are two ?s in front of that: ??
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Ruby - Finding Elements with REXML
I have an XML file that holds information about retail stores in a particular city and their locations but I'm having some trouble retrieving data from it. The problem is I can find stores by their names by looping through the name elements but I…
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how to deal with xml in very shortline in ruby
The xml I want to deal with is like this (from an dict api). It gives me back a xml file. So I want to get a solution from this xml.
renown
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Parsing an xml doc with <% %> tags in ruby
I'm looking for a way to parse an xml/html document in ruby, which contains ERB style tags <% %> with ruby code inside. REXML, the built in XML parser won't allow me to do this.
I'm aware that I might be able to with a third party library like…
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thinking-sphinx + REXML error in rails 2.3.8
I'm trying to get sphinx running via thinking-sphinx, everything works fine until I go to the search page
I have the following model
class Student < ActiveRecord::Base
define_index do
indexes [lastname, firstname]
end
end
and In my…
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XPath-REXML-Ruby: Selecting multiple siblings/ancestors/descendants
This is my first post here. I have just started working with Ruby and am using REXML for some XML handling. I present a small sample of my xml file here:
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How do handle control flow better and nil objects in ruby
I have this script that is a part of a bigger one. I have tree diffrent XML files that looks a litle diffrent from each other and I need some type of control structure to handle nil-object and xpath expressions better
The script that I have right…
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In ruby, how can I remove non word characters?
this script is a part of a bigger one, when I run this script I get "" print out as well. How can I remove this?
I used this regex: m.gsub!(/(?=\S)(\d|\W)/,"")
But it only removed the char "<" and "/>"
Here is my script:
require…
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each_element not behaving as expected
When I'm in irb and I do something like this:
node_list.each_element { |e| puts e.text }
It works and prints one line of text per element returned (plus I think it returns the xml object). However, when I head over to rails and have things moving…
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I want to reprint the modified xml after deleting entire child node
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Parse XML POST data with Rails
I'm using REXML to parse through some XML data sent via POST. The XML is sent correctly formatted with "&" sent as "&". However, when I try to parse it, I had problems like the & becoming & and throwing an error. I fixed with gsub, but now…
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rexml and addressable security vulnerabilities in Flutter
I have a Flutter project currently in production, and I have seen a while ago two security vulnerabilities pop up in dependabot, see below:
I am not really acquainted with native code, so am unsure on how to fix these dependencies.
Apart from…
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Get immediate parent node in REXML
How do I get the immediate parent of a node with REXML? root_node() gets me the parent node of the document, but I just want the parent of the current node.
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Can I write an XML reader that can cope with unclosed tags?
I'm parsing the wikipedia XML dump using a REXML StreamListener. After a few million articles, it complains that it can't find a matching close tag, and skips the rest of the file.
Is there any way to get it to ignore the unclosed tag, and to…
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Unable to iterate over elements in REXML
I'm using Ruby to inject new elements around selected XML nodes. Like this:
require 'rexml/document'
include REXML
xml = <
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