require 'rexml/document'
include REXML

file = File.new('journal250907.xml')
doc = Document.new(file)

puts doc

o_element = Element.new('abc')
o_element.text = "123"

o_node = doc.elements['journal/entry']

o_node.parent.insert_before o_node, o_element

require 'open-uri'
require 'rexml/document'

open('http://www.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.getRecent&api_key=YOUR_KEY_HERE') { |f|
    doc = REXML::Document.new f.read
    i = 0
    doc.elements.each("rsp/photos/photo") { |element|
        if i < 3
            open("images/file" << i.to_s << ".jpg", "wb").
                write(open("http://static.flickr.com/" << \
                element.attributes["server"] << "/" << \
                element.attributes["id"] << "_" << \
                element.attributes["secret"] << "_o.jpg").read)
        else
            break
        end
        i = i + 1
    }
}

puts "Done!"

require 'net/https'
require "rexml/document"

username = "" # your del.icio.us username
password = "" # your del.icio.us password

resp = href = "";
begin      
  http = Net::HTTP.new("api.del.icio.us", 443)
  http.use_ssl = true
  http.start do |http|
    req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("/v1/tags/get", {"User-Agent" => 
        "juretta.com RubyLicious 0.2"})
    req.basic_auth(username, password)
    response = http.request(req)
    resp = response.body
  end     
  #  XML Document
  doc = REXML::Document.new(resp)    
  # iterate over each element <tag count="200" tag="Rails"/>
  doc.root.elements.each do |elem|
    print elem.attributes['tag']  + " -> " + elem.attributes['count'] + "\n"
  end
  
rescue SocketError
  raise "Host " + host + " nicht erreichbar"
rescue REXML::ParseException => e
  print "error parsing XML " + e.to_s
end

REXML::XPath.match(element, './/text()').inject { |str, text| str << text.to_s }