From: Damphyr Date: 2005-09-06T00:37:18+09:00 Subject: Re: Encoding hell Zach Dennis wrote: > You are seeing already escaped characters. You need to unescape them. > > > str = CGI.unescapeHTML( string ) REXML::Document.new( str ) Aaaaargh, I knew it. That's whre I saw the 'double escaping' reference: reading about the changes in CGI between 1.6 and 1.8. Thanks, that's what I was looking for (sorry James, the whole purpose for the mail was to avoid the hack you so kindly provided :) ). Cheers, V.- ____________________________________________________________________ http://www.freemail.gr - ������ �������� ������������ ������������. http://www.freemail.gr - free email service for the Greek-speaking.