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get a Node from xml document


orders_xml = %{
<orders>
  <order>
    <number>1</number>
    <date>02/10/2008</date>
    <customer>C</customer>
    <items>
      <item upc="0" desc="Roses" qty="240" />
      <item upc="1" desc="Candy" qty="160" />
    </items>
  </order>
</orders>}

require 'rexml/document'
orders = REXML::Document.new(orders_xml)

my_order = orders.root.elements[1]
first_node = my_order.elements[1]
first_node.name                                      # => "number"
first_node.next_element.name                         # => "date"
first_node.parent.name                               # => "order"








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