Parsing XML with Ruby

Question

I\'m way new to working with XML but just had a need dropped in my lap. I have been given an usual (to me) XML format. There are colons within the tags.

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Answer 1

If in a Rails environment, the Hash object is extended and one can take advantage of the the method from_xml:

xml = File.open("myfile.xml")
data = Hash.from_xml(xml)