xmlhasher_with_attributes

XmlHasher_with_attributes

Fast XML to Ruby Hash converter

This gem is a fork of a fork of XmlHasher (through pawelma). Regarding the original code, there's only one difference : it does not skip attributes if only content is provided. I did the work to publish the gem on rubygems.org with a different name to make it available.

Example:

XmlHasher.parse('<tag attribute="attr_val">content</tag>')

# In original xmlhasher above command will return following hash:
{
  tag: "content"
}

# With xmlhasher_with_attributes hash will be equal:
{
  tag: {
    attribute: "attr_val",
    value: "content"
  }
}

Installation

• clone this repo
• run

bundle install
rake install

• require

require 'xmlhasher_with_attributes'

Usage

require 'xmlhasher_with_attributes'

# XmlHasher global configuration
#
# snakecase - convert all keys to snake case notation
# ignore_namespaces - remove XML namespaces
# string_keys - represent keys as Strings instead of Symbols
#
# here is default configuration
XmlHasher.configure do |config|
  config.snakecase = true
  config.ignore_namespaces = true
  config.string_keys = false
end

# alternatively, specify configuration options when instantiating a Parser
parser = XmlHasher::Parser.new(
  :snakecase => true,
  :ignore_namespaces => true
  :string_keys => false
)

# by default, XmlHasher will convert all keys to symbols.  If you want all keys to be Strings, set :string_keys option to 'true'

# parse XML file
XmlHasher.parse(File.new('/path/to/my/file.xml'))

# parse XML string
XmlHasher.parse("<tag1><tag2>content</tag2></tag1>")
# => {:tag1=>{:tag2=>"content"}}

Requirements

• Ruby 1.8.7 or higher

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2013 Gene Drabkin. See LICENSE for details.