A small nokogiri xml reader DSL.

xml_parser.rb

# A small DSL for helping parsing documents using Nokogiri::XML::Reader. The
# XML Reader is a good way to move a cursor through a (large) XML document fast,
# but is not as cumbersome as writing a full SAX document handler. Read about
# it here: http://nokogiri.org/Nokogiri/XML/Reader.html
# 
# Just pass the reader in this parser and specificy the nodes that you are interested
# in in a block. You can just parse every node or only look inside certain nodes.
# 
# A small example:
# 
# Xml::Parser.new(Nokogiri::XML::Reader(open(file))) do
#   inside_element 'User' do
#     for_element 'Name' do puts "Username: #{inner_xml}" end
#     for_element 'Email' do puts "Email: #{inner_xml}" end
#     
#     for_element 'Address' do
#       puts 'Start of address:'
#       inside_element do
#         for_element 'Street' do puts "Street: #{inner_xml}" end
#         for_element 'Zipcode' do puts "Zipcode: #{inner_xml}" end
#         for_element 'City' do puts "City: #{inner_xml}" end
#       end
#       puts 'End of address'
#     end
#   end
# end
# 
# It does NOT fail on missing tags, and does not guarantee order of execution. It parses
# every tag regardless of nesting. The only way to guarantee scope is by using
# the `inside_element` method. This limits the parsing to the current or the named tag.
# If tags are encountered multiple times, their blocks will be called multiple times.


require 'nokogiri'

module Xml
  class Parser
    def initialize(node, &block)
      @node = node
      @node.each do
        self.instance_eval &block
      end
    end
    
    def name
      @node.name
    end
    
    def inner_xml
      @node.inner_xml.strip
    end
    
    def is_start?
      @node.node_type == Nokogiri::XML::Reader::TYPE_ELEMENT
    end
    
    def is_end?
      @node.node_type == Nokogiri::XML::Reader::TYPE_END_ELEMENT
    end
    
    def attribute(attribute)
      @node.attribute(attribute)
    end
    
    def for_element(name, &block)
      return unless self.name == name and is_start?
      self.instance_eval &block
    end
    
    def inside_element(name=nil, &block)
      return if @node.self_closing?
      return unless name.nil? or (self.name == name and is_start?)
      
      name = @node.name
      depth = @node.depth
      
      @node.each do
        return if self.name == name and is_end? and @node.depth == depth
        self.instance_eval &block
      end
    end
  end
end

Is there any more documentation or examples on how to use this anywhere? I'm having a hard time instantiating classes inside for_element. Keep getting NoMethodErrors...

This really is fantastic - excellent work!

I just woke up in the middle of the night envisioning something like this.

And it already exists.

Good work.

OMG! This is awesome!!!! +1

inner_xml doesn't seem to unescape & -- what's the recommended way to do this?

Is anybody can help me i have xml file which is 1gb i need find some category and import 100 product from 1gb xml file
here is my code

in controller

def import
    if params[:xml_file]
      file = params[:xml_file]
      doc = Nokogiri::XML::Document.parse(file)
      total_product = doc.xpath('//shop/offers/offer').take(2).length

      Product.import(doc, params[:category_id])
      redirect_to products_path, notice: "#{total_product} Product added."
    end
 end

and in product model
def self.import(doc, category)
parsed_products = doc.xpath('//shop/offers/offer').take(2)

if !self.fashion.nil?
  self.transaction do
    parsed_products.each do |product|
      if product.at_xpath('categoryId').text == category
        Product.create!(
          price: product.at_xpath('price').text,
          category_id: product.at_xpath('categoryId').text,
          remote_image_url: product.at_xpath('picture').text.strip,
          brand_id: product.at_xpath('vendor').text,
          title: product.at_xpath('name').text,
          description: product.at_xpath('description').text,

          gender: product.at_xpath('fashion/gender').present? ? product.at_xpath('fashion/gender').text.gsub("m","Male").gsub("f","Female") : nil,

          product_type: product.at_xpath('fashion/type').present? ? product.at_xpath('fashion/type').text : '',

        )
      end
    end
  end
end

end

form

h2.text-center Import Products

= form_tag import_products_path, multipart: true do |f|
  = file_field_tag :xml_file
  br

  br
  br
  = submit_tag "Import"

any advice will be appreciated thanks advance

Had a 60+GB xml on my hands - and until @kmile showed me the path I was utterly lost in XML up above my ears :)

Thank you - from the bottom of my ❤️

This is beautiful and saved me so much time and pain. Thank you @kmile.

Thanks a lot for this wonderful piece of code. Did anyone get it to work with JRuby?

@kmile this is awesome! Is there a way to prevent the text coming back with CDATA wrappers?

<![CDATA[My Text]]>

Still rocking the house in 2018 !

License?

It's 4 years after the last comment. And still this is useful. Thank you.