demolisher

Works in a similar fashion to Builder but is instead used for extracting information from XML files rather than building them.

Example

Given the simple XML example file below

<addressbook>
  <person>
    <firstname>Enoch</firstname>
    <lastname>Root</lastname>
    <contact>
      <phone>01234 567 8900</phone>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </contact>
    <active>YES</active>
  </person>
  <person>
    <firstname>Randy</firstname>
    <lastname>Waterhouse</lastname>
    <contact>
      <phone>01234 567 8901</phone>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </contact>
    <active>NO</active>
  </person>
</addressbook>

we can parse it with

xml = Demolisher.demolish('addressbook.xml')
xml.addressbook do
  xml.person do
    puts "#{xml.firstname} #{xml.lastname}: #{xml.contact.email}"
    puts "this person is active" if xml.active?
  end
end

and we should get the result of

Enoch Root: [email protected]
this person is active
Randy Waterhouse: [email protected]

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