From: Christian Cantrell <qantrell@...>
Date: 2006-02-13T06:14:03+09:00
Subject: Trouble calling unnormalize

I'm trying to use the unnormalize method of the Text class in the  
REXML module to un-escape some XML, but I'm getting this error:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml/text.rb:304:in `unnormalize': private  
method `gsub!' called for #<REXML::Text:0x10aeb80> (NoMethodError)

The code for the unnormalize method looks like this:

def Text::unnormalize( string, doctype=nil, filter=nil, illegal=nil )
   rv = string.clone
   rv.gsub!( /\r\n?/, "\n" )
...

Any ideas as to why Ruby thinks gsub! is private, and why I can't  
call the method?

Thanks,
Christian