How do I get Nokogiri to understand my namespaces?

Question

I have the following XML document:

  @NOT_USED@         


        

Answer 1

I see a two different options for you:

1. Remove all the namespaces

   http://www.rubydoc.info/github/sparklemotion/nokogiri/Nokogiri/XML/Document#remove_namespaces%21-instance_method

   Brute force way of doing it. Could lead to problems where there are namespace collisions.

2. Use collect_namespaces

   http://www.rubydoc.info/github/sparklemotion/nokogiri/Nokogiri/XML/Document#collect_namespaces-instance_method

   A much better solution. You could use this once to identify the namespaces (say in irb) and hard-code them.

   OR

   Use it at runtime, and supply it as the second argument to https://www.rubydoc.info/github/sparklemotion/nokogiri/Nokogiri/XML/Searchable#xpath-instance_method