nokogiri

I've created an XML template in ERB. I fill it in with data from a database during an export process. In some cases, there is a null value, in which case an element may be empty, like this: <someitem> </someitem> In that case, the client receiving the export wants it to be converted into a self-closing tag: <someitem/> I'm trying to see how to get Nokogiri to do this, but I don't see it yet. Does anybody know how to make empty XML tags self-closing with Nokogiri? Update A regex was sufficient to do what I specified above, but the client now also wants tags whose children are all empty to be

There are many posts on this issue, however, there can be a couple of reasons why Nokogiri (version 1.6.x, 1.7.x or 1.8.x) fails to install on OS X. Related articles: OS X 10.6 Installing Nokogiri cann't install nokogiri 1.6.1 on Mac OS X 10.9 Maveriks Command Line not installed: This is the easiest one to check and fix: run xcode-select --install in a terminal window to install it, then try installing Nokogiri one more time by running gem install nokogiri . Some are reporting that they used gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries Libxml, libxlt are too recent: This situation is due to

So I have this <a> tag in a xml file <a href="/www.somethinggggg.com">Something 123</a> My desired result is to use Nokogiri and completely remove its tag so it is no longer a clickable link e.g Something 123 My attempt: content = Nokogiri::XML.fragment(page_content) content.search('.//a').remove But this removes the text too. Any suggestions on how to achieve my desired result using Nokogiri? Here is what I would do : require 'nokogiri' doc = Nokogiri::HTML.parse <<-eot <a href="/www.somethinggggg.com">Something 123</a> eot node = doc.at("a") node.replace(node.text) puts doc.to_html output <

We are trying to scrape the availabilities on this page: http://www.equityapartments.com/new-york/new-york-city-apartments/midtown-west/mantena-apartments.aspx I need to use my spider to select on the "All Floorplans" and fetch all the availabilities. But the data are actually sent through Javascript request I believe. Is there a way for my Nokogiri spider to render it? Or maybe simulate the process of clicking on buttons? Nokogiri is just a parser . It also allows to search content. To interact with web pages you need to use something else, e.g. Watir and PhantomJS . Combining them all