I have an xml that starts with
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-8'?>
when I attempt to do
Hash.from_xml(my_xml)
I get a #<REXML::ParseException: No close tag for /root/response/message> (REXML::ParseException)
in the message tag there is indeed characters in the above encoding. I need to parse that XML, so I am guessing that I need to convert it all to utf-8 or something else that the parse will like.
Is there a way to do this? (other uses like with Nokogiri are also good)
Nokogiri seems to do the right thing:
# test.xml
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-8'?>
<what>
<body>דה</body>
</what>
xml = Nokogiri::XML(File.read 'test.xml')
puts xml.at_xpath('//body').content
# => "דה"
You can also tell Nokogiri what encoding to use (e.g., Nokogiri::XML(File.read('test.xml'), nil, 'ISO-8859-8')), but that doesn't seem to be necessary here.
If that doesn't help, you might want to check that your XML is well-formed.
You can then convert the XML to UTF-8 if you like:
xml2 = xml.serialize(:encoding => 'UTF-8') {|c| c.format.as_xml }
If you just want to convert your Nokogiri XML to a hash, take a look at some of the solutions here: Convert a Nokogiri document to a Ruby Hash, or you can just do: Hash.from_xml(xml2).
