orders_xml = %{
1
02/10/2008
C
require 'rexml/document'
orders = REXML::Document.new(orders_xml)
my_order = orders.root.elements[1]
first_node = my_order.elements[1]
first_node.name # => "number"
first_node.next_element.name # => "date"
first_node.parent.name # => "order"