#!/usr/bin/ruby -I../.. -I../../../src require 'bdbxml' def value(document, xpath, context) result = document.query(xpath, context).to_a if result.size != 1 raise "Expected 1 got #{result.size}" end result[0].to_s end options = {'home' => 'env', 'container' => 'name.xml'} env = BDB::Env.new(options['home'], BDB::INIT_TRANSACTION) context = BDB::XML::Context.new context.returntype = BDB::XML::Context::Values env.begin do |txn| con = txn.open_xml(options['container']) bdb = txn.open_db(BDB::Btree, 'bdb', nil, 'a') con.search("/vendor") do |doc| res = value(doc, "/vendor/salesrep/name/text()", context) bdb[res] = "This is the data stored in the database for #{res}" end txn.commit end