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Removes values from XML, leaving just the tree.
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xml_scrubber.rb
# Parses XML file with Nokogiri,
# removes text from all nodes,
# prints out new 'clean' file
# Change 'input.xml' to whatever
# file you want to scrub.
require 'nokogiri'
doc = File.open('input.xml') {|f| Nokogiri::XML(f)}
doc.traverse{|node| node.content = "" if node.class == Nokogiri::XML::Text}
File.write('output.xml', doc.to_xml)
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