# Can we extract any value from xml file

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-we-extract-any-value-from-xml-file/62470>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 5, 2006, 10:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-we-extract-any-value-from-xml-file/62470 "2006-06-05T10:20:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tanushree\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@Tanushree\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tanushree_B)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 10:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-we-extract-any-value-from-xml-file/62470/1 "2006-06-05T10:20:12Z")

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Hi all,  
Can I retrive a value from .xml file in a ruby script.

If the xml file look like this.

- \<?xml version="1.0" ?\>

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- user\_name
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- user\_password
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- Login \*

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_Can i retrieve Login,user\_name or user\_password in my ruby code?_  
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**Author:** ![Tanushree\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@Tanushree\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tanushree_B)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 10:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/can-we-extract-any-value-from-xml-file/62470/2 "2006-06-05T10:29:28Z")

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Have a look at REXML, specifically it’s XPath functionality.