Selecting elements in some namespace using Nokogiri with XPath

NokogiriXPathNamespaces

2 ways to extract elements from within XML namespaces using Nokogiri
When trying to select elemenets in the default namespace, e.g. "xmlns= http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom", try the following two ways. Note the xmlns=" attribute on entry element:

Original xml:
Nokogiri::XML(@xml_string).xpath("//author/name").each do |node|
    puts node
  end


1. Define a namespace context for your XPath expression and point your XPath steps to match elements in that namespace. Define a namespace-to-prefix mapping and use this prefix (a) in the XPath expression.
xml.xpath("//a:author/a:name", {"a" => "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"})

2. LESS FAVORED: Using remove_namespaces! all your elements are under http://schemas.google.com/docs/2007 namespace URI. You must declare the binding bettween this URI an some prefix, say atom, and then the XPath expresion should be /*/atom:author/atom:name
 xml = Nokogiri::XML(@xml_string)
    xml.remove_namespaces!
    xml.xpath("//author/name").each do |node|
      puts node.text
    end

Wow that's really impressive. I had this problem just a few months ago. Wish I would have seen this Gist then!

Thank you :)

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