#31 Counting Tags (xml_tag_counter.rb)
XML is strict about its internal structure. It can only have a single top-level element (called the root element), but that root element can have any number of elements within itself, and each of those elements can have any number of other elements within itself, continuing on recursively. We want a script that we can run on an XML file that will output how many times each tag (or element) occurs within that document, no matter how many layers deep it appears—for example, we want to find all <p> tags regardless of whether or not those tags are immediately within the top-level <html> element, or within some other element, such as a <blockquote> or <div>. Let’s take a look.
The Code
#!/usr/bin/env ruby # xml_tag_counter.rb ...
Get Ruby by Example now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
