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A basic demonstration of parsing an XML file looking for certain elements

require 'rexml/document' xml = <<END_XML <people>   <person>     <name>P</name>     <gender>Male</gender>   </person>   <person>     <name>F</name>     <gender>Male</gender>   </person> </people> END_XML tree = REXML::Document.new(xml) tree.elements.each("people/person") do |person|   puts person.get_elements("name").first end