XML/XPath

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Task
XML/XPath
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Perform the following three XPath queries on the XML Document below:

  • Retrieve the first "item" element
  • Perform an action on each "price" element (print it out)
  • Get an array of all the "name" elements

XML Document:

<inventory title="OmniCorp Store #45x10^3">
  
<item upc="123456789" stock="12"> <name>Invisibility Cream</name> <price>14.50</price> <description>Makes you invisible</description> </item> <item upc="445322344" stock="18"> <name>Levitation Salve</name> <price>23.99</price> <description>Levitate yourself for up to 3 hours per application</description> </item>
<item upc="485672034" stock="653"> <name>Blork and Freen Instameal</name> <price>4.95</price> <description>A tasty meal in a tablet; just add water</description> </item> <item upc="132957764" stock="44"> <name>Grob winglets</name> <price>3.56</price> <description>Tender winglets of Grob. Just add water</description> </item>
</inventory>

Ruby

 #Example taken from the REXML tutorial (http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/docs/tutorial.html)
 require "rexml/document"
 include REXML
 #create the REXML Document from the string (%q is Ruby's multiline string, everything between the two @-characters is the string)
 doc = Document.new(
         %q@<inventory title="OmniCorp Store #45x10^3">
              ...
            </inventory>
           @
                           )
 # The invisibility cream is the first <item>
 invisibility = XPath.first( doc, "//item" ) 
 # Prints out all of the prices
 XPath.each( doc, "//price") { |element| puts element.text }
 # Gets an array of all of the "name" elements in the document.
 names = XPath.match( doc, "//name" )