bmunat@gmail.com
7/9/2007 7:00:00 PM
Hmm, Document#write takes the output stream as an argument... so, I
think you want:
doc.write(f)
Hope that helps,
Ben
On Jul 9, 6:59 am, peri <mtperit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been searching around the forums and the documentation, but I
> do not see any examples/topics on how to open an existing XML document
> and update a value (element's text value, for example) using REXML.
> Is it even possible? All I have for a workaround is overwriting the
> existing file using document.write. Am I missing something obvious
> here?
>
> Below is an example I am trying to work with:
> #===========================================
> doc = Document.new File.read('cars.xml')
>
> doc.root.each_element("//vehicle[make='Ford']") do |file_node|
> file_node.elements['method'].text = "U"
> end
>
> File.open('cars.xml','w') do |f|
> f.write doc.write
> end