trying to get content inside cdata tags in xml file using nokogiri

Question

I have seen several things on this, but nothing has seemed to work so far. I am parsing an xml via a url using nokogiri on rails 3 ruby 1.9.2.

A snippet of the xm

Answer 1

You're trying to parse XML using Nokogiri's HMTL parser. If node as from the XML parser then r would be nil since XML is case sensitive; your r is not nil so you're using the HTML parser which is case insensitive.

Use Nokogiri's XML parser and you will get things like this:

>> r = doc.at_xpath('.//NewsLineText')
=> #, #, #]>
>> r.text
=> "\n  \n  Anna Kendrick is ''obsessed'' with 'Game of Thrones' and loves to cook, particularly     creme brulee.\n  \n"

and you'll be able to get at the CDATA through r.text or r.children.