Rails - Oct 2009 - Re: How can I parse encoded and serialized XML with REXML?

Not really a solution, but this has to be a classic example of PHP-
programmer-bass-ackwardness. They''re already writing to an extensible
serialization format (XML) but then just whack language-specific
serialized data in instead. That''s right up there with the HTTP-over-
SOAP-over-HTTP stuff I''ve seen floating around...

--Matt Jones

On Sep 24, 9:14 am, Andy
<andym...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I''ve getting data like this:
>
> <![CDATA[a:1:{i:0;s:6:&quot;Sometext&quot;;}]]>
>
> I know in PHP I can unserialize and decode, but I''m not sure the
best
> way to do it in Rails.
>
> I''m already parsing the XML using REXML so I''m hoping to
continue to
> use that.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy