Parse XML with JRuby (Hpricot?) With tags like <foo.bar>

Question

I am trying to use some old XML with such elements in JRuby:

<x-doc attr="value">
  <nested>
    <with.dot>content</with.dot >
  </nested>
</x-doc>

I worked with Hpricot, but HTML-oriented Hpricot shortcuts work against me: doc.search("//with.dot")it seems to be looking<with class="dot" />

(I ran into this problem with jQuery too a few years ago.)

Can I do this with Hpricot, or do I need to use another library?

Answer 1

Check out the nokogiri . He said it was "A faster, better HTML and XML parser for Ruby (than Hpricot)."