Get id from parsing

Question

I have XML file, here part of it:

<advcampaign_categories>
    <category id="85">Sport</category>
    <category id="79">Gifts</category>
    <category id="87">Flowers</category>
    etc..
</advcampaign_categories>

and try to parse it like this:

url = 'my_xml_str' 
data = open(url).read
 Hash.from_xml(data).each do |k, v|
v['advcampaign_categories'] ...

then it returns me:

{"category"=>
  ["Sport",
   "Gifts",
   "Flowers"]
}

So my question is how to get category_id? if its possible or may be any other solutions?

Ideally, I want hash like this {sport:85,gifts:79}

There is no `category_id` in your XML sample. Do you mean you want the `id` parameter from the `` tags? — the Tin Man, Nov 06 '14 at 19:21

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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It should be easy with a library that supports xpath (nokogiri for instance)

xpath exemple

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Nov 06 '14 at 15:07

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