Dave,
You nailed it. Either way works fine. I could not find a reference with the grammar explained as you do below, at least not in the specific XML Builder context. Thanks. Page -----Original Message----- From: rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dave Aronson Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 8:02 PM To: rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [Rails] XML Builder On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:26 PM, bwb <bwbash...@retrievalsystems.com> wrote: > Using XML Builder, or some other facility, how does one emit an > element instance that has both attributes and non-empty content? Long story short: pass it the content, and then the attributes. (Or the other way around, but then I think you'd have to put the attributes in braces (since it's a hash and you'll have stuff after it), and put parens on the call (so Ruby doesn't think the hash is a block).) In your case, if I correctly spotted the difference between the current and desired outputs, what I think you want would be: xml.eotype EoType.find(official.eotypeID).name, eotypeID: official.eotypeID xml.source SourceType.find(official.sourceID).name, sourceID: official.sourceID Or, to reduce unclear redundancy: eo_id = official.eotypeID xml.eotype EoType.find(eo_id).name, eotypeID: eo_id src_id = official.sourceID xml.source SourceType.find(src_id).name, sourceID: src_id Or, with the attributes hash first: eo_id = official.eotypeID xml.eotype({ eotypeID: eo_id }, EoType.find(eo_id).name) src_id = official.sourceID xml.source({ sourceID: src_id }, SourceType.find(src_id).name) Try any of these (I'd favor #2) and let me know if it gets you what you want. -Dave -- Dave Aronson, the T. Rex of Codosaurus LLC, secret-cleared freelance software developer taking contracts in or near NoVa or remote. See information at http://www.Codosaur.us/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
