Ruby - Nokogiri - Parsing XML from memory and putting all same name node values into an array.
- by r3nrut
I have an XML I'm trying to parse from memory and get the status of each of my heart beat tests using Nokogiri. Here is the solution I have...
xml =
<a:HBeat>
<a:ElapsedTime>3 ms</a:ElapsedTime>
<a:Name>Service 1</a:Name>
<a:Status>true</a:Status>
</a:HBeat>
<a:HBeat>
<a:ElapsedTime>4 ms</a:ElapsedTime>
<a:Name>Service 2</a:Name>
<a:Status>true</a:Status>
</a:HBeat>
<a:HBeat>
I have tried using both css and xpath to pull back the value for each Status and put it into an array. Code is below:
doc = Nokogiri::XML.parse(xml)
#service_state = doc.css("a:HBeat, a:Status", 'a' => 'http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/OpenAPI.Entity').map {|node| node.children.text}
service_state = doc.xpath("//*[@a:Status]", 'a' => 'http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/OpenAPI.Entity').map(&:text)
Both will return service_state = []. Any thoughts or recommendations?
Also, consider that I have almost identical xml for another test and I used the following snippet of code which does exactly what I wanted but for some reason isn't working with the xml that contains namespaces.
service_state = doc.css("HBeat Status").map(&:text)
Thanks!
