How to read a xml file?

How to read a xml file?

I have this XML source:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> Gabriel Molina Alfredo Vargas #36 Jorge Mendoza Alguna de por ahi #12 -------------------------------------------------------

And I have this RoR source:

require “rexml/document”
include REXML
doc = Document.new File.new(“xml_info.xml”)

first_name = Array.new
last_name = Array.new
address = Array.new
n = 0

doc.elements.each(“a/b/first”) { |name|
first_name << name.text.to_s
n += 1
}

doc.elements.each(“a/b/last”) { |name|
last_name << name.text.to_s
}

doc.elements.each(“a/b/dirs”) { |dir|
address << dir.text.to_s
}

0.upto(n-1) do |i|
puts first_name[i]
puts last_name[i]
puts address[i]
end

And it works, but when I work with this xml file, it doesn’t show
anything.

My new XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<env:Envelope xmlns:xsd=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
xmlns:env=“http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”>
env:Body
<n1:Message xmlns:n1=“urn:ActionWebService”
env:encodingStyle=“http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/”>
Jorge
Mendoza
</n1:Message>
</env:Body>
</env:Envelope>

My new RoR file:

require “rexml/document”
include REXML

def test

doc = Document.new File.new(“xml_info.xml”)

first_name = Array.new
last_name = Array.new

doc.elements.each(“env:Envelope/env:Body/n1/name”) { |name|
first_name << name.text.to_s
}

doc.elements.each(“env:Envelope/env:Body/n1/last”) { |name|
last_name << name.text.to_s
}

This function must return the message “Hello Jorge Mendoza”

"Hello " + first_name[0] + " " + last_name[0]

end # test

The last xml and ruby source are of a web service.

Can Anybody help me?

There are mistakes in the first xml source, here is the good source:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>


Gabriel
Molina
Alfredo Vargas #36


Jorge
Mendoza
Alguna de por ahi #12

Can Anybody help me?

Never parsed XML in Ruby before but running a Google search on
‘parsing xml in ruby’ brought up tons of links.

In any case the second document is malformed. The closing tag for
‘last’ is ‘ape’, which might give you problems.

On Mar 26, 3:52 pm, Jorge alejandro Mendoza torres <li…@ruby-