Question about REXML

Ruby
1

I’m trying to follow this tutorial:
http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/docs/tutorial.html

When I use the IRB and do:
require “rexml/document”
include REXML
doc = Document.new File.new(“mydoc.xml”)

I get an error:
… </>

I copied the source file right from the website and created an XML
document called ‘mydoc.xml’

Why is it failing?

Thank you

Brad

2

Brad [email protected] wrote:

Why is it failing?

It isn’t. :slight_smile: Say

puts doc

…and you will see that all is well. m.

3

On 19.09.2008 20:33, Brad wrote:

I copied the source file right from the website and created an XML
document called ‘mydoc.xml’

Why is it failing?

As Matt said, it isn’t. But you should make it a habit to properly
close file handles; use any of these:

doc = Document.new File.read(“mydoc.xml”)
doc = File.open(“mydoc.xml”) {|io| Document.new(io)}
doc = File.open(“mydoc.xml”, “rb”) {|io| Document.new(io)}

Kind regards

robert