I am parsing an xml result using Hpricot, amazing .. I have a serie of tags to be transformed as parameters, so I am building Hash by looping on these tags , the resulting data is oK? but I ma not sure that I wrote a dry code ....... if doc.search(''response > error'').innerHTML.empty? accountTypes = [] (doc/:accounttype).each do |accountType| data = {} .... data[:locale] (accountType/:localized/:locale/:code).innerHTML data[:title] (accountType/:localized/:locale/:title).innerHTML .... ... # here is the loop over the <tags> elements tags = {} (accountType/:tag).each do |tag| key = (tag/:name).innerHTML.to_s value = (tag/:value).innerHTML.to_s tags.store(key, value) end .....# end of the loop , storing the data data[:tags] = tags accountTypes << data end Is this loop OK ? tags = {} (accountType/:tag).each do |tag| key = (tag/:name).innerHTML.to_s value = (tag/:value).innerHTML.to_s tags.store(key, value) end thanks for you fedback -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.