Problems locating nodes when dashes are in their names about ox

[ohler55]

From your example it looks like Ox is acting as documented. If your intent is to find any element that matches the nested names then you need to use wild cards. Check out the docs on #locate for some examples. If you are still having trouble let me know and I can lead you through and example. Give me a day or two though. I still do not have an internet connection after my move to the USA.

On Aug 31, 2012, at 10:01 AM, Mani Tadayon [email protected] wrote:

I had a lot of trouble with XML documents (returned by a 3rd party) that had node names with dashes in them.

Here's a sample IRB session that demonstrates the bug:

irb(main):001:0> require 'ox'
true
irb(main):002:0> xml = <<-EOS
irb(main):003:0"
irb(main):004:0"
irb(main):005:0" hihi
irb(main):006:0"
irb(main):007:0"
irb(main):008:0" hi
irb(main):009:0"
irb(main):010:0"
irb(main):011:0"
irb(main):012:0"
irb(main):013:0"
irb(main):014:0" EOS
"\n\n hihi\n \n \n hi\n \n \n \n \n\n"
irb(main):015:0> ox_doc = Ox.parse xml
#<Ox::Document:0x101e2fd68
attr_reader :attributes = {
:version => "1.0"
},
attr_reader :nodes = [
[0] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2fca0
attr_accessor :value = "xml-response",
attr_reader :nodes = [
[0] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2fc28
attr_accessor :value = "nodashesnode",
attr_reader :nodes = [
[0] "hihi"
]
>,
[1] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2fb88
attr_accessor :value = "clear-tradeline",
attr_reader :nodes = [
[0] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2fb10
attr_accessor :value = "supplier-tradeline",
attr_reader :nodes = [
[0] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2fa98
attr_accessor :value = "clear-tradeline-reason-code-description",
attr_reader :nodes = [
[0] "hi"
]
>,
[1] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2f9f8
attr_accessor :value = "some-dashed-node",
attr_reader :nodes = []
>,
[2] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2f980
attr_accessor :value = "nodashesnode",
attr_reader :nodes = []
>
]
>
]
>
]
>
]

irb(main):016:0> ox_doc.locate 'clear-tradeline-reason-code-description'
[]
irb(main):017:0> ox_doc.locate 'nodashesnode'
[]
irb(main):018:0> ox_doc.locate 'xml-response'
[
[0] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2fca0
attr_accessor :value = "xml-response",
attr_reader :nodes = [
[0] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2fc28
attr_accessor :value = "nodashesnode",
attr_reader :nodes = [
[0] "hihi"
]
>,
[1] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2fb88
attr_accessor :value = "clear-tradeline",
attr_reader :nodes = [
[0] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2fb10
attr_accessor :value = "supplier-tradeline",
attr_reader :nodes = [
[0] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2fa98
attr_accessor :value = "clear-tradeline-reason-code-description",
attr_reader :nodes = [
[0] "hi"
]
>,
[1] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2f9f8
attr_accessor :value = "some-dashed-node",
attr_reader :nodes = []
>,
[2] #<Ox::Element:0x101e2f980
attr_accessor :value = "nodashesnode",
attr_reader :nodes = []
>
]
>
]
>
]

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[bowsersenior]

Thanks for your comments. I will look at the docs and see if I can figure out the problem. We were using Hpricot with these same XPath queries but there may be a difference between Ox and Hpricot with how these are handled.