From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2005-11-15T05:12:16+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML -> attributes with single/double quotes


Stephan K�mper wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> when I write a previously read XML using REXML, all attribute values are
> single quoted. Unfortunately the application I'm feeding that XML to
> (currently) can't cope with that.

Throw it away :-)

>
> I tried to rad and understand the XML Standard, but couldn't find the
> exact place where it says, that both single and double quoted strings
> are allowed to delimit attribute values.
> If this the right place?
>
>
> [10]   AttValue    ::=   '"' ([^<&"] | Reference)* '"'
> |  "'" ([^<&'] | Reference)* "'"
>
>
> From: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/
>        Section 2.3 "Common Syntactic Constructs"
>
> That seems to say that attributes are either delimited by single quotes
> or by double quotes.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-notation

"string"

matches a literal string matching that given inside the double quotes.

'string'

matches a literal string matching that given inside the single quotes.



> >
> > REXML::Attribute.class_eval( %q^
> > def to_string
> > %Q[#@expanded_name="#{to_s().gsub(/"/, '&quot;')}"]
> > end
> > ^ )
> >
>
> Is there a more elegant way to achieve this?
>

I'd be disappointed if there wasn't -- sorry no help there, atm.


daz