Parsing XML file with no style info with Hpricot
Allan Last
I've been trying for hours to parse an XML using Hpricot. Usually it's
not a problem. Here's my simple code:
#This works and outputs the proper xml data
@url1 = 'http://www.sportingnews.com/stories/sportingnews/MLB/rss.xml'
@page1 = Hpricot(open(@url1))
<%= @page 1 %>
#This does not work, and I'm scratching my head
@url1 =
'http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2010/month_03/day_06/gid_2010_03_06_anamlb_oakmlb_1/boxscore.xml'
@page1 = Hpricot(open(@url1))
<%= @page 1 %>
The gd2.mlb.com XML file does not have any style information according
to Firefox. I can read it using Oxygen. Can somebody provide me with a
hint on how to parse the mlb.com XML? Thanks!
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Allan Last
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Hassan Schroeder
> #This does not work, and I'm scratching my head
And I'm scratching mine trying to guess what you mean by "does not
work" ...
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Allan Last
is not reading the MLB xml file is because it is not in a standard XML
format.
If you give my code a quick try, you'll notice that it will read other
XML files, but not the MLB XML.
#This works and outputs the proper xml data
@url1 = 'http://www.sportingnews.com/stories/sportingnews/MLB/rss.xml'
@page1 = Hpricot(open(@url1))
<%= @page1 %>
#This does not work, and I'm scratching my head
@url1 =
'http://gd2.mlb.com/components/game/mlb/year_2010/month_03/day_06/gid_2010_03_06_anamlb_oakmlb_1/boxscore.xml'
@page1 = Hpricot(open(@url1))
<%= @page1 %>
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Hassan Schroeder
> If you give my code a quick try, you'll notice that it will read other
> XML files, but not the MLB XML.
Actually, I already did, and it seems to work just fine. Hence my own
head-scratching. :-)
So, again, maybe you can say *exactly* what you expect to happen
and how that differs from what you're seeing.
Allan Last
This picture:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Qf4DFta9p5ERoCRb6Lbd2Q?feat=directlink
This is the parsed output from the feed from the sportingnews XML file.
It
is displayed on my view with <%= @page1 %>.
This picture:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/xLVr8_U-x12rJnADs_qcEw?feat=directlink
The blank space what is displayed on the view with <%= @page1 %> using
the MLB XML file.
I'm expecting the XML information seen here on Firefox:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/X7VFocR3L4S4Pl_2jvDzVQ?feat=directlink
to be displayed when I parse the MLB file. Hpricot is not parsing this
file.
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Frederick Cheung
> I'm expecting the XML information seen here on Firefox:http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/X7VFocR3L4S4Pl_2jvDzVQ?feat=dire...
>
> to be displayed when I parse the MLB file. Hpricot is not parsing this
> file.
>
I suspect hpricot is parsing the file but just blatting it into the
view like that is producing invalid html which your browser is not
rendering.
Fred
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> Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Allan Last <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>
> >> If you give my code a quick try, you'll notice that it will read other
> >> XML files, but not the MLB XML.
>
> > Actually, I already did, and it seems to work just fine. Hence my own
> > head-scratching. :-)
>
> > So, again, maybe you can say *exactly* what you expect to happen
> > and how that differs from what you're seeing.
>
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Hassan Schroeder
> I'm expecting the XML information seen here on Firefox:
/
> to be displayed when I parse the MLB file. Hpricot is not parsing this
> file.
Sure it is -- use irb to examine what's in @page1.
As Frederick already suggested, you apparently have a view problem,
not an Hpricot parsing problem.
Allan Last
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