看下面的book.xml:
引用
Second edition. The book you are now reading.
Ain't recursion grand?
race.
the moon.
1 Tree Parsing(也就是DOM-like)
我们需要require rexml/document 库,并且include REXML :
require 'rexml/document' include REXML input = File.new("books.xml") doc = Document.new(input) root = doc.root puts root.attributes["shelf"] # Recent Acquisitions doc.elements.each("library/section") { |e| puts e.attributes["name"] } # Output: # Ruby # Space doc.elements.each("*/section/book") { |e| puts e.attributes["isbn"] } # Output: # 0672328844 # 0321445619 # 0684835509 # 074325631X sec2 = root.elements[2] author = sec2.elements[1].elements["author"].text # Robert Zubrin
这里要注意的是xml中的属性和值被表示为一个hash,因此我们能够通过attributes[]来提取我们需要的值,元素的值还能通过类似于path的字符串或者整数来取得.其中用整数取的话,是1-based而不是0-based.
2 Stream Parsing(也就是SAX-like Parsing)
这边使用了一个小技巧,那就是定义了一个listener 类,它将会在parse的时候被回调:
require 'rexml/document' require 'rexml/streamlistener' include REXML class MyListener include REXML::StreamListener def tag_start(*args) puts "tag_start: #{args.map {|x| x.inspect}.join(', ')}" end def text(data) return if data =~ /^\w*$/ # whitespace only abbrev = data[0..40] + (data.length > 40 ? "..." : "") puts " text : #{abbrev.inspect}" end end list = MyListener.new source = File.new "books.xml" Document.parse_stream(source, list)
这里介绍一下StreamListener 模块,这个模块它提供了几个空的回调方法,因此你可以为了实现你自己的功能而覆盖它.当parser 进入一个tag时,就会调用tag_start方法.而text方法也是类似的,他只不过是当读取到数据时会被回调,它的输出是这样的:
tag_start: "library", {"shelf"=>"Recent Acquisitions"} tag_start: "section", {"name"=>"Ruby"} tag_start: "book", {"isbn"=>"0672328844"} tag_start: "title", {} text : "The Ruby Way" .........................................
3 XPath
REXML通过XPath 类来提供Xpath的支持. 它也同时支持DOM-like和SAX-like .还是前面的那个xml文件,我们使用Xpath可以这样做:
book1 = XPath.first(doc, "//book") # Info for first book found p book1 # Print out all titles XPath.each(doc, "//title") { |e| puts e.text } # Get an array of all of the "author" elements in the document. names = XPath.match(doc, "//author").map {|x| x.text } p names
输出是类似于下面的:
... > The Ruby Way The Case for Mars First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong ["Hal Fulton", "Robert Zubrin", "James R. Hansen"]