REXML article on XML.com

Ruby
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There a nice article by Koen Vervloesem about REXML up on the XML.com
site:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/11/09/rexml-processing-xml-in-ruby.html?CMP=OTC-TY3388567169

James B.

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On 11/14/05, James B. [email protected] wrote:

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I’m afraid it’s not proper reporting here.

$ ruby code1.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/rexml/document.rb:187:in build': undefined method add_element’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/rexml/document.rb:44:in
initialize' from code1.rb:4:in new’
from code1.rb:4

$ ruby code2.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/rexml/document.rb:187:in build': undefined method add_element’ for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/rexml/document.rb:44:in
initialize' from code2.rb:21:in new’
from code2.rb:21

However, code3.rb worked well.

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On 11/15/05, Gyoung-Yoon N. [email protected] wrote:

http://www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/rexml/document.rb:187:in `build’: undefined
from code2.rb:21

However, code3.rb worked well.

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REXML could not parse DTD.
I could not even run examples including DTD from REXML tutorial page.1

Any thought?

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James B. wrote:

There a nice article by Koen Vervloesem about REXML up on the XML.com site:

REXML: Processing XML in Ruby

The heredoc input string and two example files
(bibliography.xml and bibliography2.xml) contain:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?>

causing REXML to barf. Changing to ISO-8859-1
(or removing) fixes. ISO-8859-15 is unsupported.

I should email Koen but maybe you’re in contact, James :-?

daz

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daz wrote:
…

I should email Koen but maybe you’re in contact, James :-?
No. I just happened to hear about the article and thought it worth a
mention here. I skimmed it, but did not read through it, and have no
contact with the author.

But I posted a quick comment on the site.

James

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Thanks for testing and finding the bug! I’m not involved with the
project but
did find this on the author’s website:

"You can submit bug reports and feature requests, and view the list of
known
bugs, at the REXML bug report page. Please do submit bug reports. If you
really
want your bug fixed fast, include an runit or Test::Unit method (or
methods)
that illustrates the problem. At the very least, send me some XML that
REXML
doesn’t process properly.

You don’t have to send an entire test suite – just the unit test
methods. If
you don’t send me a unit test, I’ll have to write one myself, which will
mean
that your bug will take longer to fix.

When submitting bug reports, please include the version of Ruby and of
REXML
that you’re using, and the operating system you’re running on. Just run:
ruby
-vrrexml/rexml -e ‘p REXML::Version,PLATFORM’ and paste the results in
your bug
report."

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James B. wrote:

But I posted a quick comment on the site.

Splendid idea! One of those interactive doo-dahs.
Wish I’d written in English, now.
Barf must be a word I picked up here :slight_smile:

Thanks,

daz

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daz wrote:

Unsupported? But there’s

/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/encodings/ISO-8859-15.rb

in my Ruby installation (One-Click-Installer 1.8.2-15 Stable Release).

And over here XML starting with

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?>

gets read without any hassle. Did I miss something?

Happy rubying

Stephan

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Kevin B. wrote:

Thanks for testing and finding the bug!

It’s not a REXML bug - it’s an unsupported encoding.

Thanks, any way.

daz

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Stephan Kämper wrote:

daz wrote:

It’s not a REXML bug - it’s an unsupported encoding.

Unsupported?

Sorry, I was misled by the tutorial page:

“… other encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-1, and UNILE
are all supported, input and output) …”

But there’s
/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/encodings/ISO-8859-15.rb
in my Ruby installation (One-Click-Installer 1.8.2-15 Stable Release).

I have that file on that path and I used 1.8.2-15 also.

And over here XML starting with

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?>

gets read without any hassle. Did I miss something?

Now you say so, I think I should get that, too.

p $:.any? {|d| File.exist?(File.join(d,
‘rexml/encodings/ISO-8859-15.rb’))}
#-> true

require ‘rexml/document’
p REXML::Version
puts ‘ruby %s (%s) [%s]’ % [RUBY_VERSION, RUBY_RELEASE_DATE,
RUBY_PLATFORM]

string = ‘<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>’
doc = REXML::Document.new(string)
puts doc
puts ‘~’*40
string = ‘<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?>’
doc = REXML::Document.new(string)
puts doc

=begin

“3.1.2.1”
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?> 
D:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/output.rb:17:
 in `<<': undefined method `encode' for #<REXML::Output:0x4ed44f4> 
(NoMethodError)
    from D:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/xmldecl.rb:43:in `write'
    from D:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:163:in `write'
    from D:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:161:in `each'
    from D:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:161:in `write'
    from D:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/node.rb:23:in `to_s'
    from D:/ruby/DfB/ReXML/rbA163.TMP:14:in `puts'
    from D:/ruby/DfB/ReXML/rbA163.TMP:14

=end


daz
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daz wrote:

#-> true
doc = REXML::Document.new(string)
from D:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/xmldecl.rb:43:in write' from D:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:163:inwrite’
from D:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:161:in each' from D:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/document.rb:161:inwrite’
from D:/RUBY/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/node.rb:23:in to_s' from D:/ruby/DfB/ReXML/rbA163.TMP:14:inputs’
from D:/ruby/DfB/ReXML/rbA163.TMP:14

=end

daz

Hmm, now that you mention it… I have that problem with writing XML
with

 encoding="ISO-8859-15"

too. But then I can output XML using this:

require ‘rexml/document’

REXML::Attribute.class_eval( %q^

def to_string

%Q[#@expanded_name="#{to_s().gsub(/"/, ‘"’)}"]

end

^ )

fn = ‘sample.xml’
doc = REXML::Document.new( File.open( fn ) )

puts doc.xml_decl.to_s
puts doc.root

sample.xml is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?>

This example is the ‘essence’ of my single/double quoting issue of
attributes, of course. Commenting in the 5 lines above will lead to
doubly quoted attribute values.

Happy rubying

Stephan