Parse XML with JRuby (Hpricot?) with tags like <foo.bar>

Question

I'm trying to consume some legacy XML with elements like this in JRuby:

<x-doc attr="value">
  <nested>
    <with.dot>content</with.dot >
  </nested>
</x-doc>

I've been working with Hpricot, but Hpricot's HTML-oriented shortcuts are working against me: doc.search("//with.dot") seems to be looking for <with class="dot" />

(I ran into this problem with JQuery too, a few years ago.)

Can I do this with Hpricot, or do I need to use a different library?

Answer 1

Check out nokogiri. It's said to be "A Faster, Better HTML and XML Parser for Ruby (than Hpricot)".