Parsing an XML file with Nokogiri?

Question

<DataSet xmlns="http://www.atcomp.cz/webservices">
  <xs:schema xmlns="" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata" id="file_mame">...</xs:schema>
  <diffgr:diffgram xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata" xmlns:diffgr="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-diffgram-v1">
    <alldata xmlns="">
      <category diffgr:id="category1" msdata:rowOrder="0">
        <category_code>P.../category_code>
        <category_name>...</category_name>
        <subcategory diffgr:id="subcategory1" msdata:rowOrder="0">
          <category_code>...</category_code>
          <subcategory_code>...</subcategory_code>
          <subcategory_name>...</subcategory_name>
        </subcategory>
....

How can I obtain all categories and subcategories data?

I am trying something like:

reader.xpath('//DataSet/diffgr:diffgram/alldata').each do |node|

But this gives me:

undefined method `xpath' for #<Nokogiri::XML::Reader:0x000001021d1750>

the Tin Man · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-24 05:45:38Z

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Nokogiri's Reader parser does not support XPath. Try using Nokogiri's in-memory Document parser instead.

On another note, to query xpath namespaces, you need to provide a namespace mapping, like this:

doc = Nokogiri::XML(my_document_string_or_io)

namespaces = { 
  'default' => 'http://www.atcomp.cz/webservices', 
  'diffgr' => 'urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-diffgram-v1' 
}
doc.xpath('//default:DataSet/diffgr:diffgram/alldata', namespaces).each do |node|
  # ...
end

Or you can remove the namespaces:

doc.remove_namespaces!
doc.xpath('//DataSet/diffgram/alldata').each { |node|  }

edited May 24, 2013 at 5:45

the Tin Man

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answered Jul 17, 2012 at 18:54

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3 Comments

user984621 Over a year ago

thank you for you answer John, but unfortunately, the script don't go into the loop => so the parsing doesn't start

user984621 Over a year ago

Also, I just tried to print out put doc and the result is only <?xml version="1.0"?>, which is very weird

John Douthat Over a year ago

it sounds like your my_document_string_or_io is empty

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