William James
2/25/2006 8:31:00 PM
listrecv@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> But I'd like to just extract the attribute value via Xpath.
>
> If my Xpath is correct, I could just do '//customer/phone/@type' to get
> 'home'. Is there any way I can do this in Ruby?
p DATA.read.xchain('customer/@loc="south"/phone').first.atr['type']
__END__
<customer loc="north">
<phone type='home'>0115</phone>
<phone type='mobi'>07807</phone>
</customer>
<customer loc="south">
<phone type='home'>0319</phone>
</customer>
The rest:
class Array; alias atr first; alias txt last end
class String
def xtag(s)
result = []
scan( %r!
< #{s} (?: \s+ ( [^>]* ) )? / >
|
< #{s} (?: \s+ ( [^>]* ) )? >
( .*? ) </ #{s} >
!mx ) { |unpaired, attr, data| h = { }
attr = ( unpaired || attr )
attr.scan( %r{ ( \S+ ) = ( ["'] ) ( .*? ) \2 }x ){ |k,q,v|
h[k] = v } if attr
block_given? ? ( yield [ h, data ] ) : result << [ h, data ]
}
result
end
def xchain(s)
s.scan(%r! [^/"]+ (?: "[^"]*" )? !x).inject([[nil,self]]){|ary,str|
if "@" == str[0,1]
str =~ /@(.*?)="(.*)"/
ary.select{|a,t| a[$1] == $2 }
else
return [] if [] == ary
ary[0].txt.xtag(str)
end
}
end
end