nokogiri: xml to html

Hi, I just want to do some straight conversion (almost just search and replace) but I'm having trouble just getting things to sit in place - I'm ending up with links out of place and duplicated content. I'm sure I'm doing something silly with my attempts at traversing the xml : )

I'm trying with:

builder = Nokogiri::HTML::Builder.new do |doc|
 doc.html {
  doc.body {
   doc.div.wrapper! {
    doc.h1 "Short"

      xm.css('paragraph').each do |para|

        doc.h3.para(:id => para['number']) { doc.text para['number'] }

        doc.p.narrativeparagraph {

           xm.css('paragraph inner-section').each do |section|
              doc.span.innersection { doc.text section.content 

           xm.css('inner-section xref').each do |xref|
              doc.a(:href => "#" + xref['number']) { doc.text xref['number'] }
           end

           xm.css('paragraph inner-text').each do |innertext|
               doc.span.innertext { doc.text innertext.content }
           end

                } end #inner-section                 

                }

          end#end paragraph
        }#end wrapper
      }#end body
    }#end html
  end#end builder

on:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<looseleaf>

<paragraph number="1">
  <inner-section> blah one blah <xref number="link1location"></xref>
    <inner-text> blah two blah blah </inner-text>
     blah three
  </inner-section>
</paragraph>

<paragraph number="2">
<inner-section> blah four blah <xref number="link2location"></xref>
 <inner-text>blah five blah blah </inner-text>
         blah six
</inner-section>
</paragraph>

</looseleaf>

to create:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC- html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<h1>Short</h1>
<h3 class="para" id="1">1</h3>
<p class="narrativeparagraph">
 <span class="innersection"> blah one blah <a href="#link1location">link1location</a>
 <span class="innertext"> blah two blah blah </span>
     blah three</span>
</p>

<h3 class="para" id="2">2</h3>
<p class="narrativeparagraph">
 <span class="innersection"> blah four blah <a ref="#link2location">link2location</a>
 <span class="innertext">blah five blah blah </span>
     blah six</span></p>

I've been trying all sorts of things to try to get this to work, the basic html structure comes out okay, but the children of the paragraphs are a mess - any help would be very much appreciated. Regards, Ritchie

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