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R2-D2's_Father
R2-D2's_Father

Reputation: 173

Replacing specific <a> tags?

I'm reading some content from an XML file which has the following links in it:

<wcm:root xmlns:wcm="http://www.stellent.com/wcm-data/ns/8.0.0" version="8.0.0.0">
 <wcm:element name="NotesToEditors">
  <a href="ssNODE/something">Something</a>
  <a href="ssNODE/hello">hello</a>
  <a href="https//:www.linkkkk.com">linkkkk</a>
 </wcm:element>

Reading the file:

page_notes_to_editors = doc.xpath("/wcm:root/wcm:element[@name='NotesToEditors']").inner_text

Performing clean up:

notes = Nokogiri::XML.fragment(page_notes_to_editors)
notes.css('a[href="ssNODE]')
.each{|a| a.replace("<p>#{a.content}</p>")}

I tried escaping the double quote like this:

notes.css(a["href=\"ssNODE]")

It still complains.

But this does not work when the string has weird characters in. This is the error I get:

`on_error': unexpected '"' after 'equal'

My desired result is to convert ssNODE links to paragraphs keeping its text.

Any one has any suggestions on how to achieve my desired result?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 55

Answers (1)

Arup Rakshit
Arup Rakshit

Reputation: 118271

In the code notes.css('a[href="ssNODE]') you missed the ". Write it as notes.css('a[href^="ssNODE"]')

Documented here CSS [attribute^=value] Selector

The [attribute^=value] selector matches every element whose attribute value begins with a specified value.

Upvotes: 1

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