I have created an XML file with Ruby:
xml_file = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
xml.root {
xml.first_node("id" => "12") {
xml.second_node {
}
}
}
end
The output is full of /n and white spaces, like:
</first_node id="12">\n <Second_node>
I would like something like:
</first_node id="12"><Second_node>
I have found something like:
string.delete(' '),
but in this case it deletes ALL whitespaces, that it is not what I want.
This would be the result:
</first_nodeid="12"><Second_node>
This is why I tried using Nokogiri.
I tried something like:
doc = Nokogiri::XML(File.open("file_name.xml")) do |config|
config.strict.noblanks
end
but I am not sure, how shall apply the .noblanks to my file? Is there another solution?
Thank you
Following should give you what you are looking for
string.gsub(/\\n/, '').gsub(/>\s*/, ">").gsub(/\s*</, "<")
Related
While using Nokogiri::XML::Builder I need to be able to generate a node that also replaces a regex match on the text with some other XML.
Currently I'm able to add additional XML inside the node. Here's an example;
def xml
Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
xml.chapter {
xml.para {
xml.parent.add_child("Testing[1] footnote paragraph.")
add_footnotes(xml, 'An Entry')
}
}
end.to_xml
end
# further child nodes WILL be added to footnote
def add_footnotes(xml, text)
xml.footnote text
end
which produces;
<chapter>
<para>Testing[1] footnote paragraph.<footnote>An Entry</footnote></para>
</chapter>
But I need to be able to run a regex replace on the reference [1], replacing it with the <footnote> XML, producing output like the following;
<chapter>
<para>Testing<footnote>An Entry</footnote> footnote paragraph.</para>
</chapter>
I'm making the assumption here that the add_footnotes method would receive the reference match (e.g. as $1), which would be used to pull the appropriate footnote from a collection.
That method would also be adding additional child nodes, such as the following;
<footnote>
<para>Words.</para>
<para>More words.</para>
</footnote>
Can anyone help?
Here's a spin on your code that shows how to generate the output. You'll need to refit it to your own code....
require 'nokogiri'
FOOTNOTES = {
'1' => 'An Entry'
}
child_text = "Testing[1] footnote paragraph."
pre_footnote, footnote_id, post_footnote = /^(.+)\[(\d+)\](.+)/.match(child_text).captures
doc = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
xml.chapter {
xml.para {
xml.text(pre_footnote)
xml.footnote FOOTNOTES[footnote_id]
xml.text(post_footnote)
}
}
end
puts doc.to_xml
Which outputs:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<chapter>
<para>Testing<footnote>An Entry</footnote> footnote paragraph.</para>
</chapter>
The trick is you have to grab the text preceding and following your target so you can insert those as text nodes. Then you can figure out what needs to be added. For clarity in your code you should preprocess all the text, get your variables figured out, then fall into the XML generator. Don't try to do any calculations inside the Builder block, instead just reference variables. Think of Builder like a view in an MVC-type application if that helps.
FOOTNOTES could actually be a database lookup, a hash or some other data container.
You should also look at the << method, which lets you inject XML source, so you could pre-build the footnote XML, then loop over an array containing the various footnotes and inject them. Often it's easier to pre-process, then use gsub to treat things like [1] as placeholders. See "gsub(pattern, hash) → new_str" in the documentation, along with this example:
'hello'.gsub(/[eo]/, 'e' => 3, 'o' => '*') #=> "h3ll*"
For instance:
require 'nokogiri'
text = 'this is[1] text and[2] text'
footnotes = {
'[1]' => 'some',
'[2]' => 'more'
}
footnotes.keys.each do |k|
v = footnotes[k]
footnotes[k] = "<footnote>#{ v }</footnote>"
end
replacement_xml = text.gsub(/\[\d+\]/, footnotes) # => "this is<footnote>some</footnote> text and<footnote>more</footnote> text"
doc = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
xml.chapter {
xml.para { xml.<<(replacement_xml) }
}
end
puts doc.to_xml
# >> <?xml version="1.0"?>
# >> <chapter>
# >> <para>this is<footnote>some</footnote> text and<footnote>more</footnote> text</para>
# >> </chapter>
I can try as below :
require 'nokogiri'
def xml
Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
xml.chapter {
xml.para {
xml.parent.add_child("Testing[1] footnote paragraph.")
add_footnotes(xml, 'add text',"[1]")
}
}
end.to_xml
end
def add_footnotes(xml, text,ref)
string = xml.parent.child.content
xml.parent.child.content = ""
string.partition(ref).each do |txt|
next xml.text(txt) if txt != ref
xml.footnote text
end
end
puts xml
# >> <?xml version="1.0"?>
# >> <chapter>
# >> <para>Testing<footnote>add text</footnote> footnote paragraph.</para>
# >> </chapter>
I have string like below
case1:
str = "type=\"text/xsl\" href=\"http://skdjf.sdjhshf/CDA0000=.xsl\""
case2:
str = "href=\"http://skdjf.sdjhshf/CDA0000=.xsl\" type=\"text/xsl\""
I need to extract the values like
type -> text/xsl
href -> http://skdjf.sdjhshf/CDA0000=.xsl
Here is my regular expression that fails.
str.match(/type="(.*)"/)[1]
#this works in second case
=>"text/xsl"
str.match(/http="(.*)"/)[1]
#this works in first case
=>"http://skdjf.sdjhshf/CDA0000=.xsl"
In failure cases the whole string is matched.
Any idea?
Agree with John Watts comment. Use something like nokogiri to parse XML - it is a breeze. If you still want to stick with regex parsing you could do something like:
str.split(' ').map{ |part| part.match( /(.+)="(.+)"/ )[1..2] }
and you will get results as below:
> str = "type=\"text/xsl\" href=\"http://skdjf.sdjhshf/CDA0000=.xsl\""
=> "type=\"text/xsl\" href=\"http://skdjf.sdjhshf/CDA0000=.xsl\""
> str2 = "href=\"http://skdjf.sdjhshf/CDA0000=.xsl\" type=\"text/xsl\""
=> "href=\"http://skdjf.sdjhshf/CDA0000=.xsl\" type=\"text/xsl\""
> str.split(' ').map{ |part| part.match( /(.+)="(.+)"/ )[1..2] }
=> [["type", "text/xsl"], ["href", "http://skdjf.sdjhshf/CDA0000=.xsl"]]
> str2.split(' ').map{ |part| part.match( /(.+)="(.+)"/ )[1..2] }
=> [["href", "http://skdjf.sdjhshf/CDA0000=.xsl"], ["type", "text/xsl"]]
that you can put in a hash or wherever wou want to have it.
With nokogiri you can get hold of a node and then do something like node['href'] in your case. Probably much easier.
I am trying to create an XML using some list of XML's.
here is an example list of XML's
java.xml :
<JavaDetails>
<SomeList> ... </SomeList>
....
</JavaDetails>
c.xml
<CDetails>
<SomeList> ... </SomeList>
....
</CDetails>
I want to create a Programming.xml using the above XML's
it should look like:
<programming>
<Java>
<JavaDetails>
<SomeList> ... </SomeList>
....
</JavaDetails>
</Java>
<C>
<CDetails>
<SomeList> ... </SomeList>
....
</CDetails>
</C>
</programming>
I am currently looking into nokogiri to do the same as Performance is a major factor, What I am not sure is how to create nodes for the output XML. any code help in Ruby using Nokogiri is much appreciated.
To create a new XML file with a specific root, it can be as simple as:
doc = Nokogiri.XML("<programming/>")
One way to add a child node to that document:
java = doc.root.add_child('<Java/>').first
To read in another XML file from disk and append it:
java_details = Nokogiri.XML( IO.read )
java << java_details.root
Thus, if you have an array of filenames and you want to construct wrapping elements from each based on the name:
require 'nokogiri'
files = %w[ java.xml c.xml ]
doc = Nokogiri.XML('<programming/>')
files.each do |filename|
wrap_name = File.basename(filename,'.*').capitalize
wrapper = doc.root.add_child("<#{wrap_name} />").first
wrapper << Nokogiri.XML(IO.read(filename)).root
end
puts doc
Alternatively, if you want to use the Builder interface of Nokogiri:
builder = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
xml.programming do
files.each do |filename|
wrap_name = File.basename(filename,'.*').capitalize
xml.send(wrap_name) do
xml.parent << Nokogiri.XML(IO.read(filename)).root
end
end
end
end
puts builder.to_xml
To install it:
gem install nokogiri
Here's the syntax:
require 'nokogiri'
builder = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
xml.programming {
xml.Java {
xml.JavaDetails {
xml.SomeList 'List item'
}
}
}
end
The result can be retrieved with to_xml:
builder.to_xml
HTH!
I'm currently using the Nokogiri::XML::Builder class to construct an XML document, then calling .to_xml on it. The resulting string always contains a bunch of spaces, linefeeds and carriage returns in between the nodes, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get rid of them. Here's an example:
b = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
xml.root do
xml.text("Value")
end
end
b.to_xml
This results in the following:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>Value</root>
What I want is this (notice the missing newline):
<?xml version="1.0"?><root>Value</root>
How can this be done? Thanks in advance!
Builder#to_xml by default outputs formatted (i.e. indented) XML. You can use the Nokogiri::XML::Node::SaveOptions to get an almost unformatted result.
b = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
xml.root do
xml.foo do
xml.text("Value")
end
end
end
b.to_xml
# => "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<root>\n <foo>Value</foo>\n</root>\n"
b.to_xml(:save_with => Nokogiri::XML::Node::SaveOptions::AS_XML)
# => "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<root><foo>Value</foo></root>\n"
Now you could either just get rid of the XML header (which is optional anyway) and remove the last newline
b.to_xml(:save_with => Nokogiri::XML::Node::SaveOptions::AS_XML | Nokogiri::XML::Node::SaveOptions::NO_DECLARATION).strip
# => "<root><foo>Value</foo></root>"
Just removing all newlines in the XML is probably a bad idea as newlines can actually be significant (e.g. in <pre> blocks of XHTML). If that is not the case for you (and you are really sure of that) you could just do it.
This is not something that Nokogiri is designed to do. The closest you can get is to serialize the root of the document with no newlines or indentation, and then add the PI yourself (if you really need it):
require 'nokogiri'
b = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new{ |xml| xml.root{ xml.foo "Value" } }
p b.to_xml
#=> "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<root>\n <foo>Value</foo>\n</root>\n"
p b.doc.serialize(save_with:0)
#=> "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n<root><foo>Value</foo></root>\n"
flat_root = b.doc.root.serialize(save_with:0)
p flat_root
#=> "<root><foo>Value</foo></root>"
puts %Q{<?xml version="1.0"?>#{flat_root}}
#=> <?xml version="1.0"?><root><foo>Value</foo></root>
Alternatively, you could simply cheat and do:
puts b.doc.serialize(save_with:0).sub("\n","")
#=> <?xml version="1.0"?><root><foo>Value</foo></root>
Note the usage of sub instead of gsub to only replace the first known-present newline.
b.to_xml returns a string. You just need to replace the first instance of \n in the string.
require 'nokogiri'
b = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
xml.root do
xml.text("Value")
end
end
b.to_xml.sub("\n",'')
Probably easier than trying to overload the method.
I think I need a combo of hpricot and regex here. I need to search for 'a' tags with an 'href' attribute that starts with 'abc/', and returns the text following that until the next forward slash '/'.
So, given:
One
Two
I need to get back:
'12345'
and
'67890'
Can anyone lend a hand? I've been struggling with this.
You don't need regex but you can use it. Here's two examples, one with regex and the other without, using Nokogiri, which should be compatible with Hpricot for your use, and uses CSS accessors:
require 'nokogiri'
html = %q[
One
Two
]
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(html)
doc.css('a[#href]').map{ |h| h['href'][/(\d+)/, 1] } # => ["12345", "67890"]
doc.css('a[#href]').map{ |h| h['href'].split('/')[2] } # => ["12345", "67890"]
or use regex:
s = 'One'
s =~ /abc\/([^\/]*)/
return $1
What about splitting the string by /?
(I don't know Hpricot, but according to the docs):
doc.search("a[#href]").each do |a|
return a.somemethodtogettheattribute("href").split("/")[2]; // 2, because the string starts with '/'
end