REXML - XML query only returning one (last) result

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I'm really new to Ruby on Rails, and I'm trying to read an XML file with REXML. No matter what I try, I am only getting the last result returned from my query. I should be getting 365 results. Here is the code:

include REXML require 'rexml/document' require 'rexml/xpath'

class MakeFootprintController < ApplicationController   def index     file = File.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/xml/footprints.xml")     doc = Document.new(file)     doc.each_element('//day') { |day|       render_text day     }   end end

Thanks for the help.

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By default, render_text sets the response body (instead of appending to it), so all your calls to render_text are overwriting each other, render_text takes extra parameters that allow you to override this Calling render_text more than once isn't really right though. (You could use a partial or something).

Fred

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Thanks Fred!