Parsing simple XML with Nokogiri

Question

I have the following XML:

  
    
    http://www.example.com/url-1
           


        

Answer 1

Replace this:

@links = doc.xpath('//links/item').map do |i| 
  {'title' => i.xpath('//title'), 'url' => i.xpath('//url')} 

with:

@links = doc.xpath('//links/item').map do |i| 
  {'title' => i.xpath('title'), 'url' => i.xpath('url')} 

Explanation:

//title 

and

//url

are absolute XPath expressions and they select all (respectively) title and all url elements in the XML document.

Contrast this with:

title

and

url

These are relative XPath expressions and select all (respectively) title and url children of the current node only.