使用builder创建XML
builder安装方法:
x=Builder::XmlMarkup.new(:target=>
$stdout, :indent=> 1)
#”:target=>$stdout”参数:指示输出内
容将被写向标准输出控制台
#”:indent=>1″参数:XML输出形式将被缩
进一个空格字符x.instruct! :xml,
:version=>’1.1′,:encoding=> ‘gb2312’
x.comment! “书本信息”
x.library(“shelf”=> “Recent Acquisitions”) {
x.section(“name”=> “ruby”){
x.book(“isbn”=> “0672310001”){
x.title “Programming Ruby”
x.author “Yukihiro ”
x.description “Programming Ruby –
The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide”
}
}
}
p x #打印XML
Ruby创建XML输出结果:
< !– 书本信息 –>
< library shelf=”Recent Acquisitions”>
< section name=”ruby”>
< book isbn=”0672310001″>
< title>Programming Ruby< /title>
< author>Yukihiro < /author>
< description>Programming Ruby – The
Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide
< /description>
< /book>
< /section>
< /library>
< inspect/>
#< IO:0x2a06ae8>
使用ReXML解析XML
REXML 是一个完全用ruby写的processor ,他有多种api,其中两个经典的api是通过DOM-like 和SAX-like 来进行区分的。第一种是将整个文件读进内存,然后存储为一个分层的形式(也就是一棵树了).而第二种是”parse as you go”,当你的文件很大,并且内存受到限制的时候,比较适合用这种。
看下面的book.xml:
引用
<section name=”Ruby”>
<book isbn=”0672328844″>
<title>The Ruby Way</title>
<author>Hal Fulton</author>
<description>
Second edition. The book you are now reading.
Ain’t recursion grand?
</description>
</book>
</section>
<section name=”Space”>
<book isbn=”0684835509″>
<title>The Case for Mars</title>
<author>Robert Zubrin</author>
<description>Pushing toward a second home for the human
race.
</description>
</book>
<book isbn=”074325631X”>
<title>First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong</title>
<author>James R. Hansen</author>
<description>Definitive biography of the first man on
the moon.
</description>
</book>
</section>
</library>
1 Tree Parsing(也就是DOM-like)
我们需要require rexml/document 库,并且include REXML :
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/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:
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:
p book1
# Print out all titles
XPath.each(doc, “http://title”) { |e| puts e.text }
# Get an array of all of the “author” elements in the document.
names=XPath.match(doc, “http://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”]