Parse XML With Hpricot

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        From <a href="http://errtheblog.com/post/8">http://errtheblog.com/post/8</a>
Simple XML is basically HTML with random tags, yeah?  Parse it with <a href="http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/hpricot01.html">Hpricot</a>!

Your XML:

<Export>
  <Product>
    <SKU>403276</SKU>
    <ItemName>Trivet</ItemName>
    <CollectionNo>0</CollectionNo>
    <Pages>0</Pages>
  </Product>
</Export>

The code:

require 'hpricot'
FIELDS = %w[SKU ItemName CollectionNo Pages]

doc = Hpricot.parse(File.read("my.xml"))
(doc/:product).each do |xml_product|
  product = Product.new
  for field in FIELDS
    product[field] = (xml_product/field.intern).first.innerHTML
  end
  product.save
end

Tags:
• hpricot
• Ruby
• XML