Rails 3: Parsing XML
- by gjb
I have a simple XML document in the following format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<object>
<strField>Foo</strField>
<intField>1</intField>
<dateField>2010-11-03</dateField>
<boolField>true</boolField>
<nilField></nilField>
</object>
I would like to parse this into a Hash to be passed to Model.create:
{:object => {
:strField => 'Foo',
:intField => 1,
:dateField => Date.today,
:boolField => true,
:nilField => nil }}
Sadly there are no "type" attributes in the XML, so using Hash.from_xml just parses each field as a string. What I am looking for is some sort of field type auto detection. I have also looked at Nokogiri, but that can't output as a Hash.
What is the simplest and most efficient way to achieve this?
Many thanks.
