Generating XML with cdata using Ox? - ruby

Question

I need to generate XML using ox but didn't get much help from the documentation. I need to generate XML like this:
<Jobpostings>
<Postings>
<Posting>
<JobTitle><cdata>Programmer Analyst 3-IT</cdata></JobTitle>
<Location><cdata>Romania,Bucharest...</cdata></Location>
<CountryCode><cdata>US</cdata> </CountryCode>
<JobDescription><cdata>class technology to develop.</cdata></JobDescription>
</Posting>
</Postings>
</jobpostings>
I have the data inside the tags as strings in variables like this:
jobtitle = "Programmer Analyst 3-IT" and so on...
I am currently using Nokogiri to generate XML but I need to work on large data, and, for the performance sake I am moving to Ox.
Any ideas on how to do this?

Answer 1

It's pretty simple, you just initialize new elements and append them to other elements. Unfortunately there isn't an XML builder in the Ox library though... Here's an example:
require 'ox'
include Ox
source = Document.new
jobpostings = Element.new('Jobpostings')
source << jobpostings
postings = Element.new('Postings')
jobpostings << postings
posting = Element.new('Posting')
postings << posting
jobtitle = Element.new('JobTitle')
posting << jobtitle
jobtitle << CData.new('Programmer Analyst 3-IT')
location = Element.new('Location')
posting << location
location << CData.new('Romania,Bucharest...')
countrycode = Element.new('CountryCode')
posting << countrycode
countrycode << CData.new('US')
countrycode << ' '
jobdescription = Element.new('JobDescription')
posting << jobdescription
jobdescription << CData.new('class technology to develop.')
puts dump(source)
Returns:
<Jobpostings>
<Postings>
<Posting>
<JobTitle>
<![CDATA[Programmer Analyst 3-IT]]>
</JobTitle>
<Location>
<![CDATA[Romania,Bucharest...]]>
</Location>
<CountryCode>
<![CDATA[US]]> </CountryCode>
<JobDescription>
<![CDATA[class technology to develop.]]>
</JobDescription>
</Posting>
</Postings>
</Jobpostings>