Powerscribe templates XML parsing

ps_template_parser.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rexml/document'
include REXML

#open the XML file exported from Powerscribe

# Ruby lets us open the file in a block (thereby closing it when it's done)
File.open("Voice.xml") do |file|
  # The "block" is that do ... end syntax and |file| is a reference to the file we've opened
  doc = Document.new(file)
  root = doc.root

  #for each element of listed in the XML file we want to:
  # display the "shortText" (which is the title of the Template)
  # display the "longText" (which is the actual text of the Template)

  # This xml has items which then contain the information we want
  # To keep this easy, we'll loop through the items then extract what we want from each of item
  root.elements.each("item") do |item|
    # Just output the ID of the item which is available in the <ID> node in the XML
    puts item.elements['ID'].get_text
  end

  # save this for later
  #root.each_element('//shortText').get_text.to_s  {|word1| puts word1}

  #magically somehow in the same "each element" section make it show the "longText" part too
end