set tag attribute and add plain text content to the tag using nokogiri builder (ruby)

Question

I am trying to build XML using Nokogiri with some tags that have both attributes and plain text inside the tag. So I am trying to get to this:

Answer 1

There are two approaches you can use.

Using .text

You can call the .text method to set the text of a node:

builder = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new { |xml|
  xml.Transaction("requestName" => "OrderRequest") do
    xml.Option("b" => "hive"){ xml.text("hello") }
  end
}

which produces:

  hello

Solution using text parameter

Alternatively, you can pass the text in as a parameter. The text should be passed in before the attribute values. In other words, the tag is added in the form:

tag "text", :attribute => 'value'

In this case, the desired builder would be:

builder = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new { |xml|
  xml.Transaction("requestName" => "OrderRequest") do
    xml.Option("hello", "b" => "hive")
  end
}

Produces the same XML:

  hello