I\'ve got a Rails controller which is going to output a hash in XML format - for example:
class MyController < ApplicationController
# GET /example.xml
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I was having the same Issue;
This is my XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Contacts>
<Contact type="array">
</Contact>
</Contacts>
I was using this:
entries.to_xml
to convert hash data into XML, but this wraps entries' data into <hash></hash>
So I modified:
entries.to_xml(root: "Contacts")
but that still wrapped the converted XML in 'Contacts'. modifying my XML code to
<Contacts>
<Contacts>
<Contact type="array">
<Contact>
<Name></Name>
<Email></Email>
<Phone></Phone>
</Contact>
</Contact>
</Contacts>
</Contacts>
So it adds an extra ROOT that I don't wan't there.
Now solution to this what worked for me is:
entries["Contacts"].to_xml(root: "Contacts")
that avoids <hash></hash>
or any additional root to be included.
Cheers!!
I think if you're converting an object to XML, you need a tag which wraps everything, but you can customise the tag name for the wrapper:
def index
@output = {"a" => "b"}
respond_to do |format|
format.xml {render :xml => @output.to_xml(:root => 'output')}
end
end
Which will result in:
<output>
<a>
b
</a>
</output>