Introducing the dynarex-parser gem

require 'rexleparser'

class DynarexParser

  def initialize(s)

    s.instance_eval{
      def fetch_node(name)
        self.slice(((self =~ /<#{name}>/) + name.length + 2) .. (self =~ /<\/#{name}>/) - 1)
      end
    }

    root_name = s[/<(\w+)/,1]

    summary = RexleParser.new("<summary>#{s.fetch_node(:summary)}</summary>").to_a

    raw_records = s.fetch_node(:records)
    node_name = raw_records[/<(\w+)/,1]
    records = raw_records.strip.split(/(?=<#{node_name}[^>]+>)/).map {|url| RexleParser.new(url).to_a}

    @a = [root_name, "", {}, [*summary], ['records', "",{}, *records]]
  end
  
  def to_a()
    @a
  end
end

s = "<urls><summary><name>eee</name><age>44</age></summary><records><url><name>fun</name></url><url><name>right</name></url><url><name>rrr</name></url></records></urls>"
a = DynarexParser.new(s).to_a

#=> ["urls", "", {}, ["summary", "", {}, ["name", "eee", {}], ["age", "44", {}]], ["records", "", {}, ["url", "", {}, ["name", "fun", {}]], ["url", "", {}, ["name", "right", {}]], ["url", "", {}, ["name", "rrr", {}]]]]

Parse a Dynarex document with the Dynarex Parser

The Dynarex Parser reads a Dynarex document as an XML string and returns a tree representation within an array for use by Rexle. The Dynarex document is simple to parse since it contains only a summary node and a records node at the top level. The records node stores a flat list of records in native XML format, which can be parsed using String#split combined with RexleParser.

This method is much quicker than simply using RexleParser on its own since Dynarex records can be processed uniformly within a predetermined loop.

dynarex-parser

Runtime

Introducing the dynarex-parser gem