Nevermind on this. The solution was to simply RTF and add the period before the // in the XPath query..
-Bryan On 5/16/07, Bryan Donovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > If I submit the following address to Google's geocode service: > 600 Naito Parkway, Portland, OR 97209 > > .. I get two addresses returned (as expected) > > The two addresses returned are: > 600 SW Naito Pkwy, Portland, OR 97209, USA (Thoroughfare: 600 SW Naito Pkwy) > 600 NW Naito Pkwy, Portland, OR 97209, USA (Thoroughfare: 600 NW Naito Pkwy) > > Here's the Google geocode response link: > http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=600%20Naito%20Parkway,%20Portland,%20OR%20&key=ABQIAAAAzMUFFnT9uH0xq39J0Y4kbhTJQa0g3IQ9GZqIMmInSLzwtGDKaBR6j135zrztfTGVOm2QlWnkaidDIQ&output=xml > > I want to parse this xml response to extract each thoroughfare element > (the address without the city, state, and zipcode). However, the > code I'm using, which is basically lifted from the ym4r gem's Geocode > module (because I'm having the same problem with it..) is returning > the same thoroughfare twice. I'm sure it's just not using REXML > correctly. Here's my code.. > > require 'rexml/document' > require 'open-uri' > > url = > "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=600%20Naito%20Parkway,%20Portland,%20OR%20&key=ABQIAAAAzMUFFnT9uH0xq39J0Y4kbhTJQa0g3IQ9GZqIMmInSLzwtGDKaBR6j135zrztfTGVOm2QlWnkaidDIQ&output=xml"; > xml = open(url).read > doc = REXML::Document.new(xml) > response = doc.elements['//Response'] > response.elements.each("Placemark") do |placemark| > data = placemark.elements > data_thoroughfare = data['//ThoroughfareName'] > puts data_thoroughfare.text > end > > The output is: > 600 SW Naito Pkwy > 600 SW Naito Pkwy > > Any idea how I can correctly grab each thoroughfare? > > Thanks, > Bryan > _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
