From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2005-10-30T02:07:07+09:00
Subject: Re: rexml: generating tree from source


Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> Hello out there,
>
> I try to parse some xml-text with rexml:
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
>
> require 'rexml/document'
> include REXML
>
>
> str=<<EOS
> <a><b>text with <illegal characters> </b></a>
> EOS
>
> # d=Document.new(str) #  barks because < and >
> s=Source.new(str)
> # I thought that this would give me some output
> puts Element.new(s)   #->  </>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> What I'd like to have is a representation of
>
> element: a
>    element: b
>    text:    "text with &lt;illegal characters&gt; "
>
>
> Any possibility?
>


This may be applicable:

<Quoting>
http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/docs/tutorial.html

[Creating XML documents]
[...]

"Please be aware that all text nodes in REXML are UTF-8 encoded,
 and all of your code must reflect this. You may input and output
 other encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-1, and UNILE are all
 supported, input and output), but within your program, you must
 pass REXML UTF-8 strings."

"I can't emphasize this enough, because people do have problems
 with this. REXML can't possibly alway guess correctly how your
 text is encoded, so it always assumes the text is UTF-8."
</>


daz