One way would be to check the children until you get the CData node:
parent_node = xml_request_doc.xpath("//attached_document") # this assumes parent_node is not nil cdata_node = parent_node.children.detect {|n| n.cdata?} # i think you can then just do: cdata_node.value -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.