# A working from\_xml including child relationships **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [February 6, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-working-from-xml-including-child-relationships/159651 "2009-02-06T18:29:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adamfowleruk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e99b99/32.png) [@adamfowleruk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adamfowleruk)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-working-from-xml-including-child-relationships/159651/1 "2009-02-06T18:29:36Z")
Hi all, I’ve been looking at some options for getting a from\_xml implementation working with ActiveRecord based classes. I had a few issues and couldn’t resolve them, so I rolled my own. Seems to work well for simple parent \> child relationships, including collections. I thought I’d post in case anyone else was similarly afflicted. Here’s the blog post to get the code. Please add comments to let me know what you think. (Or to tell me I’m an idiot and missed something!) [http://web.me.com/adamfowleruk/adamsapple/Blog/Entries/2009/2/6\_Ruby\_incoming\_XML\_processing.html](http://web.me.com/adamfowleruk/adamsapple/Blog/Entries/2009/2/6_Ruby_incoming_XML_processing.html) Regards, Adam. ---
**Author:** ![adamfowleruk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e99b99/32.png) [@adamfowleruk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adamfowleruk)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-working-from-xml-including-child-relationships/159651/2 "2009-02-06T21:18:45Z")
Oh BTW just added recursive to\_xml too, which supports ActiveRecord::Base objects [http://web.me.com/adamfowleruk/adamsapple/Blog/Entries/2009/2/6\_Ruby\_to\_xml\_implementation.html](http://web.me.com/adamfowleruk/adamsapple/Blog/Entries/2009/2/6_Ruby_to_xml_implementation.html) Adam.