Rails - Jun 2010 - Using XmlSimple to parse XML strings

I am using XmlSimple to parse an XML string received from a remote
host.  I am getting the error message, "File does not exist: .".  I am
fairly well convinced that the problem is that XmlSimple is not
recognizing the received XML string as being valid XML and is
therefore looking for a file by that name (which, of course, does not
exist).  The XmlSimple documentation says that it recognizes an XML
string by the presence of ''<'' and ''>''
characters.  I interpret that to
mean that XmlSimple does not perform any sort of exhaustive XML
validity check; but, rather just looks for the presence of those
opening and closing characters to make the determination.  The
received string meets that requirement.  Any suggestions on what I
might do?

Thanks for any input.

          ... doug

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I wanted the list to know that I resolved this issue.  My problem
related to my poor understanding of sockets (but I''m learning).  I
didn''t realize that reading from a socket is destructive.  That is
(apparently) once the data is read from the socket, it is gone.  In a
backhanded sort of way, that is what was causing my problem.  Thanks.

         ... doug

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