Strange behavior with tagsoup and Groovy's XmlSlurper

Question

Let's say I want to parse the phone number from an an xml string like this:

str = """ <root> 
            <address>123 New York, NY 10019
                <div class="phone"> (212) 212-0001</div> 
            </address> 
        </root> 
    """
parser = new XmlSlurper(new org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser()).parseText (str)
println parser.address.div.text()

It doesn't print the phone number.

If I change the "div" element to "foo" like this

str = """ <root> 
            <address>123 New York, NY 10019
                <foo class="phone"> (212) 212-0001</foo> 
            </address> 
        </root> 
    """
parser = new XmlSlurper(new org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser()).parseText (str)
println parser.address.foo.text()

Then its able to parse and print the phone number.

What the heck is going on?

Btw I am using groovy 1.7.5 and tagsoup 1.2

Answer 1

Just change code to

println parser.address.'div'.text()

This is curse of Groovy and many other dynamic language - "div" is reserved method name thus you don't get node but rather try to divide "address" node :)