Question

How can I remove an element when parsing XML with Ox?

Ox has an append method - (Object) <<(node) but doesn’t seem to have a - (Element) remove method. Nokogiri has a remove function, does Ox have an equivalent?

http://www.ohler.com/ox/Ox/Element.html

Answer 1

Consider this document:

doc = Ox::Document.new(:version => '1.0')
top = Ox::Element.new('top')
top[:name] = 'sample'
doc << top

Now you can observe:

doc.nodes.class => Array

Your nodes are just a regular ruby array.
And thus you have all the Enumerable functionality combined with the Array facilities of Ruby.

To delete the element we’ve created above, you can do this:

doc.nodes.delete top

Or an index-based removal if that’s what you need:

doc.nodes.delete_at 0

Hope this helps