sax parsing

[Shweta Kadam]

hi all,
Has anybody used sax parsing in ruby
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[Robert Klemme]

2008/5/7 Shweta Kadam <shweta...@persistent.co.in>:

> Has anybody used sax parsing in ruby

Yes.

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[Shweta Kadam]

hi,
I'm using sax parsing in my code but confused about how to add
listener's to it and can you tell me in detail how to write sax code in
ruby as well as listener's.

[Robert Dober]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Shweta Kadam
<shweta...@persistent.co.in> wrote:
#
# There are more ways, but I like most to use blocks
# If you prefer to implement listeners as objects the documentation below
# should give you some sound hints too, I just never felt the need for it.
#
require 'rexml/parsers/sax2parser'

parser = REXML::Parsers::SAX2Parser.new( DATA.read )

parser.listen :start_element do
|uri, locname, qname, atts|

puts "I am in start_element and was called with " <<
[uri, locname, qname, atts].inspect
end

parser.listen :characters do
| text |
puts %<I am in characters and was called with "#{text}">
end
#
# For all type of listeners see here:
# http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/REXML/Parsers/SAX2Parser.html#M005185
# and for the paramters they take have a look at the corresponding method here:
# http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/REXML/SAX2Listener.html
parser.parse

__END__
<root>
<node1>
<node2 att1="www">
content
</node2>
</node1>
</root>

HTH
Robert

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