On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> David, > > Just to add some context, what you experienced pretty much applies to > all lanuages that offer access to xml, and the reason is the W3C XML > specification requires this behavior. When any XML parser reads the > XML, CDATA sections are not preserved. The text property returns the > text node of an element and if the element happens to have a CDATA > section, then the text part if it is returned along with any other > text content of the element. > Thanks Chris, that is helpful to know, so I wont make that same mistake with another xml parser. > > > On Oct 31, 4:09 pm, David Kahn <[email protected]> wrote: > > SOLVED: Guess posting this got me more curious and I figured it out: > > > > If I ask for > > my_file.xpath("//EMBEDDED_FILE/DOCUMENT").text > > > > Nokogiri automatically takes the content within the cdata element within > the > > DOCUMENT node and returns it to me without the cdata. Nice. So just a > case > > of making things harder for myself. > > > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 4:59 PM, David Kahn <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > This is an extension of my last post (problems with REXML) which has me > > > looking to Nokogiri again. The reason I am not using Nokogiri is I can > not > > > seem to find a way to get CDATA out of a Nokogiri document. > > > > > First, can you tell me if I am loading my document correctly, because > when > > > I call my_document.to_xml, I only get one line back: > > > > > (rdb:1) test_file = Nokogiri::XML(mismo_xml_file) > > > #<Nokogiri::XML::Document:0x5dd22 name="document"> > > > (rdb:1) test_file.to_xml > > > "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n" > > > > > So maybe this is the first step and if I get the full doc to load, my > cdata > > > will be there?!! > > > > > Alternatively, if you have a code snippet of loading a doc and > successfully > > > getting CDATA out, that would be a great help! > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > David > > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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.
