Parsing simple XML with Nokogiri

Question

I have the following XML:

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


        

Answer 1

The trouble here is that the Xpath //title searches for titles from the root of the document, and so returns all title tags. Using the Xpath title searches within the context of the given node, like you want. Ditto on url.

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