Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!feeder.news-service.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: 7stud -- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: Can you search in REXML by attributes? Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:45:54 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <6680e1dd986ba2ce87d806950a81ee57@ruby-forum.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1301627494 50574 65.111.164.187 (1 Apr 2011 03:11:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 03:11:34 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <6680e1dd986ba2ce87d806950a81ee57@ruby-forum.com> X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 380725 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2079 ..the xpath: //*[@id = 'i1671'] finds all tags with an id attribute whose value is 'i1671'. You might want to check out an XPath tutorial to get specifics on XPath, e.g.: http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp However, it doesn't necessarily mean that REXML will support the particular xpath feature you try. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.