Module: PLOS::XmlHelpers

Included in:
Affiliation, Article, ArticleRef, Contributor, Figure, Name, Reference
Defined in:
lib/plos/xml_helpers.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#nodes_to_hash(nodes, attribute_name) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/plos/xml_helpers.rb', line 27

def nodes_to_hash(nodes, attribute_name)
  hash = {}
  nodes.each do |node|
    key = node.attr(attribute_name)
    value = node.text
    hash[key] = value
  end
  hash
end

#parse_node(node, obj = nil) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/plos/xml_helpers.rb', line 5

def parse_node(node, obj=nil)
  value = case(node.name)
  when "arr"
    node.xpath('./*').collect { |child| parse_node(child) }
  when "date"
    DateTime.parse(node.content)
  when "float"
    node.content.to_f
  else
    node.content
  end
  if node.attr("name") && obj && obj.respond_to?(:"#{node.attr("name")}=")
    obj.send(:"#{node.attr("name")}=", value)
  end
  value
end

#tag_value(node, tag_name) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/plos/xml_helpers.rb', line 22

def tag_value(node,tag_name)
  child = node.search("#{tag_name}").first
  child.text if child
end