Rails - Feb 2009 - Parent.find(parent.id).to_xml(:include => [children, grandchildren] = Help?

I''ve read Fred Cheung''s excellent example of nested :includes
at the
link;

http://www.spacevatican.org/2008/8/8/nested-includes-and-joins

His examples deal with including parent and children associations but
I can''t see the connection of how to address a child, grandchild
nested :include.

I am presenting my users'' with the ability to create a complex find
upon the Parent table.
The result of this find ( @parent ) will then be passed to another
find whose purpose is to create a multilevel ''nested'' array
that is
then passed to the .to_xml method.

I am pursuing this approach in order to pass the resultant @xmlout
array to the Jasper Reports ( iReport ) framework is which the user is
able to generate some very robust reports.

Obviously, one might suggest this approach;

for parent in @parents
  @xmlout << parent
  for child in parent.child
    @xmlout << child
    for grandchild in child.grandchildren
      @xmlout << grandchild

When this @xmlout is created the indention of the resulting XML file
has the child and grandchild at equal levels in XML indentation as the
parent.
The only way I seem to be able to get a properly indented XML file
that makes sense to the Jasper Reports framework is to call
the .to_xml method against a ''ActiveRecord'' prepared nested
array. The
following attempts don''t ''Blow Up'' but yield the
child and NOT the
grandchild nested array. These are;

@xmlout << Parent.find(parent.id).to_xml(:include => {:children =>
{:child => :grandchildren}})
@xmlout << Parent.find(parent.id).to_xml(:include => {:children =>
{:grandchildren => :child}})

I am happy to share any parts of this endeavor which is loosely
predicated upon the excellent "How to Integrate Jasper Reports" at
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/howtointegratejasperreports

Thank you,
David

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