Need help to parse xml (foaf)

Ruby
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hey all,
I have a foaf.xml that looks like that:

<rdf:RDF xmlns:dc=“DCMI: DCMI Metadata Terms”
xmlns:foaf=“FOAF Vocabulary Specification”
xmlns:rdf=“http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#”
xmlns:rdfs=“http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#”
xmlns:xfn=“XFN - XHTML Friends Network”>
<foaf:Person rdf:about=“http://myself.videntity.org/”>
foaf:namemyself</foaf:name>
foaf:page
<foaf:Document rdf:about=“http://myself.videntity.org/” />
</foaf:page>
foaf:nickmyself</foaf:nick>
<foaf:mbox rdf:resource=“mailto:[email protected]” />
foaf:mbox_sha1sum67b60b91fd6d4f68e32deae93956d36bc7c93c70</foaf:mbox_sha1sum>
foaf:knows
<foaf:Person rdf:about=“http://bob.videntity.org/”>
foaf:namebob</foaf:name>
<foaf:homepage rdf:resource=“http://bob.videntity.org/”
/>
</foaf:Person>
</foaf:knows>
foaf:knows
<foaf:Person rdf:about=“http://bill.videntity.org/”>
foaf:namebill</foaf:name>
<foaf:homepage rdf:resource=“http://bill.videntity.org/”
/>
</foaf:Person>
</foaf:knows>
</foaf:Person>
</rdf:RDF>

I put all this into a string @f and then I create a doc:

doc=Document.new(@f.body)
@foaffriends=doc.root

I’m trying to get the names of all my friends:
“bill” and “bob”

If I do:

@foaffriends[1].elements[‘foaf:knows’][1].elements[‘foaf:name’]

I get “bob” but I can’t figure out how to get “bill”.
I tried:

@foaffriends[1].elements[‘foaf:knows’][2].elements[‘foaf:name’]

but it returned nil.

Any idea how to get all my friends name?

thanx in advance

Pat

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On Apr 28, 10:43 am, “Patrick A.” [email protected] wrote:

hey all,
I have a foaf.xml that looks like that:
[snip]
I’m trying to get the names of all my friends:
“bill” and “bob”

require ‘rexml/document’

doc = REXML::Document.new( DATA.read )
p doc.each_element( ‘//foaf:knows/foaf:Person/foaf:name/text()’ ){}
#=> [“bob”, “bill”]

END
<rdf:RDF xmlns:dc=“DCMI: DCMI Metadata Terms”
xmlns:foaf=“FOAF Vocabulary Specification”
xmlns:rdf=“http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#”
xmlns:rdfs=“http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#”
xmlns:xfn=“XFN - XHTML Friends Network”>
<foaf:Person rdf:about=“http://myself.videntity.org/”>
foaf:namemyself</foaf:name>
foaf:page
<foaf:Document rdf:about=“http://myself.videntity.org/” /

    </foaf:page>
    <foaf:nick>myself</foaf:nick>
    <foaf:mbox rdf:resource="mailto:[email protected]" />
    <foaf:mbox_sha1sum>67b60b91fd6d4f68e32deae93956d36bc7c93c70</

foaf:mbox_sha1sum>
foaf:knows
<foaf:Person rdf:about=“http://bob.videntity.org/”>
foaf:namebob</foaf:name>
<foaf:homepage rdf:resource=“http://
bob.videntity.org/” />
</foaf:Person>
</foaf:knows>
foaf:knows
<foaf:Person rdf:about=“http://bill.videntity.org/”>
foaf:namebill</foaf:name>
<foaf:homepage rdf:resource=“http://
bill.videntity.org/” />
</foaf:Person>
</foaf:knows>
</foaf:Person>
</rdf:RDF>