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

On Sep 24, 2:14 pm, 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.
>
Well the CDATA bit is just XML''s way of conveniently storing chunks of
data with arbitrary contents, so REXML should handle that. What''s
inside looks like a php serialized object. Unsurprisingly ruby does
not come with functions to deal with serialized php objects (and I
suspect php doesn''t come with libraries to parse ruby''s
serialized
object format). If you''re lucky there will be a gem out there (maybe
http://github.com/jqr/php-serialize ) that already does this, if not
you will just have to implement the unserializing yourself.

Fred
> Thanks,
> Andy