Ruby XML Parsing

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I have a sample XML document like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <soap:Body>
    <SearchSecretsResponse xmlns="urn:thesecretserver.com">
      <SearchSecretsResult>
        <Errors/>
        <SecretSummaries>
          <SecretSummary>
            <SecretId>86</SecretId>
            <SecretName>hostName\root</SecretName>
            <SecretTypeName>Unix Root Account (SSH)</SecretTypeName>
          </SecretSummary>
        </SecretSummaries>
      </SearchSecretsResult>
    </SearchSecretsResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

I am trying to parse it using Nokogiri. My code is

doc = Nokogiri::XML.parse(xml)
puts doc.xpath('//SecretSummary')

But this doesn't print anything. What am I doing wrong ?

Aaron Breckenridge · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-26 19:26:30Z

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You'll need to alias the namespace.

Nokogiri::XML(xml).xpath('//foo:SecretSummary', 'foo' =>  'urn:thesecretserver.com')

answered Apr 26, 2016 at 19:26

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DYemane · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-26 23:33:00Z

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You could also remove the namespaces

doc.remove_namespaces!

answered Apr 26, 2016 at 23:33

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