Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #968931: > Kefan X. wrote in post #968930: >> I am trying to parse both rss feed and atom feed using Nokogiri. > > There's probably a library that does this already; if there is, you > should use it if possible. But read on for other ideas. > >> I'm >> meeting a problem where i cannot use one query to universally select >> both rss element and atom element. >> >> E.g. >> >> @item = "item" >> root.xpath(//#...@item}) will select for rss >> @item = "entry" >> root.xpath(//#...@item}) will not select for atom >> >> Even though the entry tag has no explicit namespace attached to it. I >> understand this is an implicit namespace issue which is in the xml >> specifications. However, I am wondering if there's a way to circumvent >> this issue to allow nokogiri to somehow modify the document so that the >> xpath on implicitly namespaced element would work without a namespace. > > Do you want to use XSL or something (perhaps Ruby!) to transform RSS to > Atom (or vice versa)? Do I understand correctly? >
Yes, I need to transform one format to another. > If not, then I think this is an XPath question, and might be better > directed to an XML forum. > This is not really an xpath question as the specs is in my opinion could use a different approach. It is a fundamental obstacle. Therefore I am asking whether or not there is a nokogiri workaround to solve this problem. > Alternatively, you could detect whether the feed is RSS or Atom, then > build the XPath expression accordingly. > Yea, this is the last scenario I want to approach but I agree it is the simplest method. Thanks a lot for your help though! >> Thanks! > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
