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A small nokogiri xml reader DSL.
# A small DSL for helping parsing documents using Nokogiri::XML::Reader. The
# XML Reader is a good way to move a cursor through a (large) XML document fast,
# but is not as cumbersome as writing a full SAX document handler. Read about
# it here: http://nokogiri.org/Nokogiri/XML/Reader.html
#
# Just pass the reader in this parser and specificy the nodes that you are interested
# in in a block. You can just parse every node or only look inside certain nodes.
#
# A small example:
#
# Xml::Parser.new(Nokogiri::XML::Reader(open(file))) do
# inside_element 'User' do
# for_element 'Name' do puts "Username: #{inner_xml}" end
# for_element 'Email' do puts "Email: #{inner_xml}" end
#
# for_element 'Address' do
# puts 'Start of address:'
# inside_element do
# for_element 'Street' do puts "Street: #{inner_xml}" end
# for_element 'Zipcode' do puts "Zipcode: #{inner_xml}" end
# for_element 'City' do puts "City: #{inner_xml}" end
# end
# puts 'End of address'
# end
# end
# end
#
# It does NOT fail on missing tags, and does not guarantee order of execution. It parses
# every tag regardless of nesting. The only way to guarantee scope is by using
# the `inside_element` method. This limits the parsing to the current or the named tag.
# If tags are encountered multiple times, their blocks will be called multiple times.
require 'nokogiri'
module Xml
class Parser
def initialize(node, &block)
@node = node
@node.each do
self.instance_eval &block
end
end
def name
@node.name
end
def inner_xml
@node.inner_xml.strip
end
def is_start?
@node.node_type == Nokogiri::XML::Reader::TYPE_ELEMENT
end
def is_end?
@node.node_type == Nokogiri::XML::Reader::TYPE_END_ELEMENT
end
def attribute(attribute)
@node.attribute(attribute)
end
def for_element(name, &block)
return unless self.name == name and is_start?
self.instance_eval &block
end
def inside_element(name=nil, &block)
return if @node.self_closing?
return unless name.nil? or (self.name == name and is_start?)
name = @node.name
depth = @node.depth
@node.each do
return if self.name == name and is_end? and @node.depth == depth
self.instance_eval &block
end
end
end
end
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kmile commented Feb 28, 2012

This appears to be from libxml2. It seems that it references the XmlTextReaderMode enum:

Enum xmlTextReaderMode {
    XML_TEXTREADER_MODE_INITIAL = 0
    XML_TEXTREADER_MODE_INTERACTIVE = 1
    XML_TEXTREADER_MODE_ERROR = 2
    XML_TEXTREADER_MODE_EOF = 3
    XML_TEXTREADER_MODE_CLOSED = 4
    XML_TEXTREADER_MODE_READING = 5
}

But I cannot tell for sure without looking at the source what these states/modes mean, or if this is a complete list.

@santuxus
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That's a really nice and useful gist.
Thanks!

@cmartin81
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Very nice code! Thanks a lot!

@lesterz
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lesterz commented Nov 15, 2013

Is there any more documentation or examples on how to use this anywhere? I'm having a hard time instantiating classes inside for_element. Keep getting NoMethodErrors...

@joonty
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joonty commented Feb 7, 2014

This really is fantastic - excellent work!

@gal-at-aljazeera
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I just woke up in the middle of the night envisioning something like this.

And it already exists.

Good work.

@nicka
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nicka commented Jan 13, 2015

OMG! This is awesome!!!! +1

@twigbranch
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inner_xml doesn't seem to unescape & -- what's the recommended way to do this?

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saroar commented Apr 7, 2016

Is anybody can help me i have xml file which is 1gb i need find some category and import 100 product from 1gb xml file
here is my code

in controller

def import
    if params[:xml_file]
      file = params[:xml_file]
      doc = Nokogiri::XML::Document.parse(file)
      total_product = doc.xpath('//shop/offers/offer').take(2).length

      Product.import(doc, params[:category_id])
      redirect_to products_path, notice: "#{total_product} Product added."
    end
 end

and in product model
def self.import(doc, category)
parsed_products = doc.xpath('//shop/offers/offer').take(2)

if !self.fashion.nil?
  self.transaction do
    parsed_products.each do |product|
      if product.at_xpath('categoryId').text == category
        Product.create!(
          price: product.at_xpath('price').text,
          category_id: product.at_xpath('categoryId').text,
          remote_image_url: product.at_xpath('picture').text.strip,
          brand_id: product.at_xpath('vendor').text,
          title: product.at_xpath('name').text,
          description: product.at_xpath('description').text,

          gender: product.at_xpath('fashion/gender').present? ? product.at_xpath('fashion/gender').text.gsub("m","Male").gsub("f","Female") : nil,

          product_type: product.at_xpath('fashion/type').present? ? product.at_xpath('fashion/type').text : '',

        )
      end
    end
  end
end

end

form

h2.text-center Import Products

= form_tag import_products_path, multipart: true do |f|
  = file_field_tag :xml_file
  br

  br
  br
  = submit_tag "Import"

any advice will be appreciated thanks advance

@wdiechmann
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Had a 60+GB xml on my hands - and until @kmile showed me the path I was utterly lost in XML up above my ears :)

Thank you - from the bottom of my ❤️

@HazelGrant
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This is beautiful and saved me so much time and pain. Thank you @kmile.

@EricDuminil
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Thanks a lot for this wonderful piece of code. Did anyone get it to work with JRuby?

@cmalpeli
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cmalpeli commented Mar 7, 2017

@kmile this is awesome! Is there a way to prevent the text coming back with CDATA wrappers?

<![CDATA[My Text]]>

@aurels
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aurels commented Oct 24, 2018

Still rocking the house in 2018 !

@hrieke
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hrieke commented Dec 5, 2018

License?

@hassan-allocator
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It's 4 years after the last comment. And still this is useful. Thank you.

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