Question

In my controller I have:

xml_doc.xpath('//locale').map do |i|
Thing.create!(:name => i.xpath('englishName').inner_text, :lang => i.xpath('representation').inner_text)
end

The xml doc is: http://www.facebook.com/translations/FacebookLocales.xml

The problem is that the lang column is set to:

af_ZAar_ARaz_AZbe_BYbg_BGbn_INbs_BAca_EScs_CZcy_G...

for each element created.

The problem:

Answer 1

Ultimately the issue is that the representation isn’t at the same level as englishName:

xml_doc.xpath('//locale').map do |i|
  englishName = i.xpath('englishName').inner_text

  # Or just ".//representation", or if there may be multiple codes, you
  # need to be even more clever about determining which to use.
  representation = i.xpath('codes/code/standard/representation').inner_text

  puts "#{englishName} - #{representation}"
end

Outputs (truncated):

Thai - th_TH
Filipino - tl_PH
Turkish - tr_TR
Ukrainian - uk_UA
Vietnamese - vi_VN
Simplified Chinese (China) - zh_CN
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) - zh_HK
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) - zh_TW