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Hi. Im quite new to this Rails thing, but it seems like a good product so why not try it out whit a little prototype i need to build. What i want is to load any given XML file, and display it with some formatting. I have some XSD shemes to validate the XML files against, but its not vital rigth now. But how should i approach this task? At first it would proberly be a good idea to load the

Hi One of our customers has a Filemaker database which needs to be accessed for some data. Using the Web Companion, I can query the database for an XML version of the data. I need to be able to push this data into an array of hashes, so I can access it in a more convenient way. Filemaker is able to provide me with 2 XML formats (DSO-XML and FMP-XML): *********** DSO-XML ***********

In my rails application i want to fetch an external xml file So my website www.test.com needs an xml file from www.example.com/xml.asp?query=hallo. In my rails application i want to fetch and handle this file as an xml object. Can anyone help me? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

This is my first time working with REST and XML. My goal is to access Google''s geocoding service using HTTP. Here''s the code I have so far: require ''open-uri'' require ''rexml/document'' include REXML url=''http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?'' address = ''q=1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountin View,CA'' address1 =

Got a question hopefully someone can answer - I am working on functionality to match on certain nodes of a largish (65mb) xml file. I implemented this with REXML and was 2 minutes and counting before I killed the process. After this, I just opened the console and loaded the file into a string and did a regex search for my data -- the result was almost instantaneous. The question is, if I can get

I''m really new to Ruby on Rails, and I''m trying to read an XML file with REXML. No matter what I try, I am only getting the last result returned from my query. I should be getting 365 results. Here is the code: include REXML require ''rexml/document'' require ''rexml/xpath'' class MakeFootprintController < ApplicationController def index

Hi All, I bought the ''beta book'' of Rails Recipes from pragprog and there''s a tutorial in there for producing RSS 2.0, i''d like to generate RSS (RDF) 1.0 though. Can anyone point in the right direction. I''ve had little luck finding detailed information on the ruby XML class. Thanks -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, I''m looking for a library for reading RSS feeds. Do you know a good one ? Thanks for your help. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Why can it not find my object? What am i missing here? Here is my code: require ''rexml/document'' include REXML # classes to represent the objects and relationships in the xml file class Article attr_accessor :id, :post, :archive, :ntype, :head, :blurb, :body, :fblurb, :fimage, :att, :source, :copy, :brand end # the base parser class BaseXMLParser def initialize(filename)

Hi, After following the excellent tutorials in the Agile Web Development with Rails book, I was able to get my webservice working pretty much perfectly :) I can access it via SOAP and XML-RPC and look at service.wsdl to find the API. What I can''t do however is get the API for the XML-RPC call. It fails with : Internal protocol error: NilClass is not a valid input stream. It must

Hello, I came to know of mongrel by pure chance, it interrested me cause webrick never worked and instantrails for rails was very slow. the problem with webrick is/was is that it says just this: >ruby script/server c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/entity.rb:21: warning: character class has `-'' without escape c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/entity.rb:21: warning: character

C:\rails\brablog>ruby script/generate scaffold c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/entity.rb:21: warning: character class has `-'' without escape c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/entity.rb:21: warning: character class has `-'' without escape c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rexml/entity.rb:21: warning: character class has `-'' without escape

Running rails 1.2.3, rcov (0.8.0.2), rspec trunk (2865) - When running rake spec:rcov, I''m getting the following: Finished in 245.717813 seconds 856 examples, 0 failures, 48 pending /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/text.rb:292:in `normalize'': private method `gsub'' called for 0:Fixnum (NoMethodError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/element.rb:1084:in

Hey everyone, I''ve been refactoring Mechanize for an 0.7.0 release. Basically I''m trying to clean the code up and there are a few features that I think are unnecessary, but I would like to ask people first. 1) REXML as a parser. I want to remove support for REXML. I don''t use it. Hpricot seems to do everything I need. 2) 1.8.2 thru 1.8.4 support

Ok, I am interfacing with the del.icio.us API and I want to collect the links in an @instance variable for my view. But I''m having trouble with that part. Here''s what I have: def get_authenticated(path, http) request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(path) request.basic_auth ''user'', ''pass'' response = http.request(request) response.value response.body end

Hi All, I''m trying to return XML from a Rails view of an object I built up using Builder::XmlMarkup and I find an annoying side effect is that I get an extra <to_xml/> or <to_s/> element back which makes REXML hiccup thinking I''m adding a recond root element when I try to parse the return. How can I return the XML without this last element? Thanks, Vince

I have this field in my app where a logged in user can enter a comment, but when I click on the link bringing me to that page I get the following error message: undefined method `table_name'' for REXML::Comment:Class I am doing some encrypting that has an ''include REXML'' statement but when I comment that out I still get this error. Does anyone know where this is coming

Hi all, I''ve been looking at the performance of my fb app and one glaring issue seems to be with the parsing speed of rexml in processing the results. Has anyone looked into porting the facebooker parser from rexml to libxml? If not, any reason I shouldn''t try? Thanks! Yu-Shan. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi all. I''m having trouble getting REXML to play nicely with an RSS feed that uses an encoding type called WINDOWS-1250. My application works when I comment out the references to the lines that utilize the REXML library. After visiting my app and being told that Rails could not start properly, my server.log file says: FastCGI: comm with server

Hello everyone, A new project I''m starting on has a "database" consisting of many 10s of thousands of XML documents. They all conform to a common schema. The project consists pretty much exclusively of searching and presenting existing data - there''s no need (for the forseeable future) to be able to input or update XML documents in the database. Unlike (say) blog