# USAGE: Hash.from_libxml(YOUR_XML_STRING)
require 'xml/libxml'
# adapted from
# http://movesonrails.com/articles/2008/02/25/libxml-for-active-resource-2-0
class Hash
class << self
def from_libxml(xml, strict=true)
begin
XML.default_load_external_dtd = false
XML.default_pedantic_parser = strict
result = XML::Parser.string(xml).parse
return { result.root.name.to_s => xml_node_to_hash(result.root)}
rescue Exception => e
# raise your custom exception here
end
end
def xml_node_to_hash(node)
# If we are at the root of the document, start the hash
if node.element?
if node.children?
result_hash = {}
node.each_child do |child|
result = xml_node_to_hash(child)
if child.name == "text"
if !child.next? and !child.prev?
return result
end
elsif result_hash[child.name.to_sym]
if result_hash[child.name.to_sym].is_a?(Object::Array)
result_hash[child.name.to_sym] << result
else
result_hash[child.name.to_sym] = [result_hash[child.name.to_sym]] << result
end
else
result_hash[child.name.to_sym] = result
end
end
return result_hash
else
return nil
end
else
return node.content.to_s
end
end
end
end
@doc ||= Nokogiri::XML(File.read("myxmldoc.xml"))
@node = @doc.at('#uniqueID') # this works if this selects only one node
nodeHash = Hash[*@node.keys().zip(@node.values()).flatten]
require 'nokogiri'
class Nokogiri::XML::Node
TYPENAMES = {1=>'element',2=>'attribute',3=>'text',4=>'cdata',8=>'comment'}
def to_hash
{kind:TYPENAMES[node_type],name:name}.tap do |h|
h.merge! nshref:namespace.href, nsprefix:namespace.prefix if namespace
h.merge! text:text
h.merge! attr:attribute_nodes.map(&:to_hash) if element?
h.merge! kids:children.map(&:to_hash) if element?
end
end
end
class Nokogiri::XML::Document
def to_hash; root.to_hash; end
end