From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-12-19T06:53:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Unescaped text in REXML

Farrel Lifson wrote:
> Hi Rubyists,
> 
> I'm writing a small app that will be generating HTML programatically
> using REXML. Part of the HTML that will be generated is a <SCRIPT> tag
> with some JavaScript in it. However the JavaScript is full of
> characters that would normally be escaped elsewhere in HTML and as
> such REXML renders it pretty useless by replacing all the <,>,' and
> such like with character entity codes. I'm currently trying to add the
> JavaScript as a text element like so:
> 
> scriptElement.text = javaScriptCode
> 
> which causes all the characters to be escaped. I've tried setting the
> :raw context to :all for the element but it just causes an exception
> to be raised when an escapable character is encountered.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get unescaped text in using REXML?

Consider a CDATA section:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rexml/rdoc/classes/REXML/CData.html

<script type="text/javascript">
  //<![CDATA[
...
  //]]>
   </script>

James


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