From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2005-12-11T14:00:00+09:00
Subject: inserting raw xml into a rexml document



how can i do this:


   [ahoward@localhost xhtml-0.0.0]$ irb -r rexml/document
   irb(main):001:0> REXML::Text::new("<foobar>", respect_whitespace=false, parent=nil, raw=false).to_s
   => "&lt;foobar&gt;"

   irb(main):002:0> REXML::Text::new("<foobar>", respect_whitespace=false, parent=nil, raw=nil).to_s
   => "&lt;foobar&gt;"

   irb(main):003:0> REXML::Text::new("<foobar>", respect_whitespace=false, parent=nil, raw=true).to_s
   /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/text.rb:90:in `initialize': Illegal character '<' in raw string "<foobar>" (Exception)
           from (irb):3:in `new'
           from (irb):3:in `irb_binding'
           from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52:in `irb_binding'
           from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52


is there no way to subvert the call to allow placing raw strings containing
__any__ chars into the output?

regards.

-a
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