Dozuki

A Nokogiri wrapper that simplifies commonly occurring tasks.

What does it do?

Dozuki removes the repetitive tasks from parsing XML documents with XPaths such as:

• extracting ints, floats, strings, dates etc.
• accessing single nodes
• checking whether an element exists
• iterating through nodes
• iterating nodes and extracting ints, floats, booleans and strings etc.

It's mainly sugar for reducing the amount of chaining on calls like:

doc.xpath('/my/xpath').first.to_i

to:

doc.int('/my/xpath')

How do I use it?

The parse method supports all input parameters supported by Nokogiri's parse method:

# simple usage
doc = Dozuki::XML.parse(string_or_io)

# HTML
html = Dozuki::HTML.parse(string_or_io)

# or the full parameter list
doc = Dozuki::XML.parse(string_or_io, url = nil, encoding = nil, options = ParseOptions::DEFAULT_XML)
doc = Dozuki::HTML.parse(string_or_io, url = nil, encoding = nil, options = ParseOptions::DEFAULT_XML)

# or using the quick methods
doc  = Dozuki::XML(string_or_io, ...)
html = Dozuki::HTML(string_or_io, ...)

This documents supports the Dozuki extensions for:

Extracting a single node

The get methods takes an xpath and returns the first node that matches the xpath:

doc.get('/my/xpath')

If the node can't be found then an exception is raised.

Extracting and parsing the value of a single node

The following methods take the first node that matches the xpath and returns the formatted result:

doc.string('/my/xpath') # surrounding whitespace stripped
doc.float('/my/xpath')
doc.int('/my/xpath')
doc.date('/my/xpath') # format yyyy-mm-dd
doc.boolean('/my/xpath') # format true/false or 1/0

These functions are to replace calls using plain Nokogiri such as:

doc.xpath('/my/xpath').first.to_i

Checking whether an element exists

doc.exists?('/my/xpath')

Iterating through nodes

Dozuki also provides a slightly more succinct way to 'each' an xpath:

doc.each('/my/xpath') do |node|
  # do something
end

Iterating through node text and parsing

There are also simple ways to extract formatted text of a series of nodes with an each

doc.each('/my/xpath').as_string do |node|
  # string with surrounding whitespace stripped
end

doc.each('/my/xpath').as_int do |int|
  # int
end

doc.each('/my/xpath').as_float do |float|
  # float
end

doc.each('/my/xpath').as_date do |date|
  # date
end

doc.each('/my/xpath').as_boolean do |boolean|
  # boolean
end

Playing nicely with Nokogiri

Dozuki will proxy any calls not recognised onto the underlying Nokogiri structure, including responds_to?, allowing you to treat it like any other Nokogiri document.

More documentation

More features are described in the.. features

Contributing to Dozuki

• Fork the project.
• Add tests that cover the new feature or bug fix.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself in another branch so I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2010:

• James Almond

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