strip error

[MortalCatalyst]

I have created a nokogiri document 'doc' each time I attempt to parse it with Nori I get an error.

'[63] pry(main)> parser = Nori.new
=> #<Nori:0x00000004f34b30
@options=
{:strip_namespaces=>false,
:delete_namespace_attributes=>false,
:convert_tags_to=>nil,
:convert_attributes_to=>nil,
:advanced_typecasting=>true,
:convert_dashes_to_underscores=>true,
:parser=>:nokogiri}>
[64] pry(main)> parser.parse(@doc)
NoMethodError: undefined method strip' for #<Nokogiri::XML::Document:0x00000002103ae0> from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/nori-2.4.0/lib/nori.rb:42:inparse'
[65] pry(main)> parser.parse(doc)
NoMethodError: undefined method strip' for #<Nokogiri::XML::Document:0x25decf4 name="document"> from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/nori-2.4.0/lib/nori.rb:42:inparse'

and even with a tiny called tiny.xml

<Races>
<Race RaceNumber="1"><NameRaceFull>Foo</NameRaceFull></Race>
<Race RaceNumber="2"><NameRaceFull>Goo</NameRaceFull></Race>
<Race RaceNumber="3"><NameRaceFull>Hoo</NameRaceFull></Race>
</Races>

[68] pry(main)> newdoc = Nokogiri::XML("tiny.xml")
=> #(Document:0x24ed034 { name = "document" })
[69] pry(main)> parser.parse(newdoc)
NoMethodError: undefined method strip' for #<Nokogiri::XML::Document:0x24ed034 name="document"> from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/nori-2.4.0/lib/nori.rb:42:inparse'
[70] pry(main)>

Am I doing something wrong?

[tjarratt]

Hey @MortalCatalyst, I think you might be doing this a little wrong. Nori#parse expects a string as its input -- you should be able to see this in the examples the README includes.

Maybe it makes sense for Nori to raise a better error here, so it's more obvious why this is failing?

[MortalCatalyst]

OK so I just need to do it more like this
def get_file_as_string(filename)
data = ''
f = File.open(filename, "r")
f.each_line do |line|
data += line
end
return data
end

MAIN

xml_data = get_file_as_string 'Pizza.hbm.xml'

print out the string

puts xml_data

Which I got from here

http://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/ruby/ruby-method-read-in-entire-file-as-string

[tjarratt]

Ah, even better you could probably use the builtin method File.read to read your file in one line.

require 'nori'

xml_data = File.read('Pizza.hbm.xml')
puts xml_data

hash = Nori.new.parse(xml_data)

puts hash.inspect

Hope this helps!