If that's actually what's in params, somebody's already parsed the XML. No REXML needed...
--Matt On Oct 12, 11:29 am, "grant.tf" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > thnkas for the responses, I have tried to prgress this by using REXML, > and I have tried creating an REXL doc using > > doc = REXML::Document.new ranking > > where ranking is a variable that I have assigned from the paramters > submitted to my controller, the parameters shown in the log as > follows: > > Parameters: {"ranking"=>{"asset"=>[{"title"=>"title one", "id"=>"1", > "rank"=>"1"}, > {"title"=>"title two", "id"=>"2", > "rank"=>"2"}, > {"title"=>"title fourteen ", "id"=>"14", > "rank"=>"3"}, > > ....... > {"title"=>"title xxxxx", "id"=>"3", > "rank"=>"12"}, > {"title"=>"title yyyyyy", "id"=>"10", > "rank"=>"13"}]}, > "_method"=>"put", "action"=>"ranking", > "path_prefix"=>"/ > demo", "controller"=>"assets"} > > As a result of the Document.new I get the following error > > NameError (undefined local variable or method `source' for > REXML::SourceFactory:Class): > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/source.rb:20:in `create_from' > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb:130:in `stream=' > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/parsers/baseparser.rb:107:in > `initialize' > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/parsers/treeparser.rb:8:in `new' > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/parsers/treeparser.rb:8:in `initialize' > > I have tried various options but can't seem to get round this. I > assume I am having this problem as REXML does not recoginise the input > to the new constructor as XML. > > If anyone can shed any light on this I would much appreciate it. > > cheers, G > > On Oct 6, 11:32 am, bill walton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 23:26 -0700, saxosurfin wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have posted an XML list to a rails controller from a flex client > > > along the lines of > > > <itemList> > > > <item id="1" title="title one" value="6" /> > > > <item id="5" title="title five " value="2" /> > > > <item id="7" title="title blah blah" value="7" /> > > > </itemList> > > > > The itemList is a parmeter passed to the controller, what I would like > > > to know is how I process the itemList as an XML entity. What I want to > > > do is loop through the items, find the object for the id and update > > > the value attribute based on the value from the XML list. > > > > Is there an example around of doing a similar thing or if someone can > > > provide an answer I would much appreciate it. > > > Check out Hpricot and REXml. Google for examples. Come back with > > specific questions if you have problems. > > > HTH, > > Bill --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
