From: Nick Sieger <nicksieger@...>
Date: 2005-10-20T23:57:43+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML escaping seems broken

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On 10/20/05, Trejkaz <trejkaz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It seems like the only workaround for this is to manually escape all
> strings correctly and then pass as raw into REXML. But if I'm going to
> go to that much trouble, there's really no point in using the library
> in the first place as it becomes just as easy to concatenate some
> strings together.
>
> Do people consider this to be a real bug?



Perhaps the docs for REXML::Text::new will illuminate the situation:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rexml/rdoc/classes/REXML/Text.html#M00288=
6

You may also be interested in Sam Ruby's xchar.rb experiment:

http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/09/28/XML-Cleansing
Cheers,
/Nick

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