nodes named "description" are not accessible through Slop

[ghazel]

doc = Nokogiri::Slop("<item><title>foo</title><description>this is the foo thing</description></item>")
p "doc.item.title:", doc.item.title
p "doc.item.description:", doc.item.description

Prints:

"doc.item.title:"
#<Nokogiri::XML::Element:0x243ba0a name="title" children=[#<Nokogiri::XML::Text:0x243b8ac "foo">]>
"doc.item.description:"
nil

[tenderlove]

Hi! Unfortunately, we can't fix this. The reason is because Nokogiri::XML::Node responds to "description". With HTML documents, "description" returns a description of the node, where on XML documents, it returns nil.

I've added a hack for the slop visitor that lets you use an underscore if the method is already defined. So you can do this:

doc.item._description

Hope that helps!

[tenderlove]

adding a hack for the slop decorator. closed by d9f41bf