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copied!<p>You could write your own XML Parser.. no seriously! Check out <a href="http://kschiess.github.com/parslet/" rel="nofollow">Parslet</a> Infact the examples it comes with include an <a href="https://github.com/kschiess/parslet/blob/master/example/simple_xml.rb" rel="nofollow">XML Parser</a> </p> <p>Something like this:</p> <pre><code>require 'parslet' class XML < Parslet::Parser root :document rule(:document) { (formatting | text).repeat(1) } rule(:formatting) { tag_pair('b').as(:bold) | tag_pair('u').as(:underline) | tag_pair('i').as(:italic) } def tag(type) str('<') >> str(type) >> str('>') end def tag_pair(type) tag(type) >> document.maybe >> tag("/" + type) end rule(:text) { match('[^<>]').repeat(1).as(:text) } end parser = XML.new input = ARGV[0] require 'parslet/convenience' puts parser.parse_with_debug(input).inspect </code></pre> <p>produces something like this... </p> <pre><code>> ruby xmlparser.rb "<b>bold<i>italic</i> bold again <u>underlined</u></b>" </code></pre> <p>[{:bold=>[{:text=>"bold"@3}, {:italic=>[{:text=>"italic"@10}]}, {:text=>" bold again "@21}, {:underline=>[{:text=>"underlined"@36}]}]}]</p> <p>As you can see this tree has style nodes for bold italic etc. and the content inside them.</p> <p>It could easily be extended to handle white space, and dealing with other tags you care about. It's a little harder to deal with tags you don't care about. </p> <p>anyway.. just showing the possibilities.</p> <p>With Parslet you typically then write a Transform class to convert this tree structure into what you are hoping to do in the end. I love the way Parslet splits parsing from using the parsed data.</p> <p>Hope this helps.</p>

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