From: "James Britt (rubydev)" <james@...>
Date: 2001-11-15T14:21:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25247] Re: ANN: REXML 1.1a3

> Should REXML convert "'" and '"' into &apos; and &quot;?
> At least, the behavior:
> 
>   foo_str = ""
>   foo = REXML::Element.new("foo")
>   foo.attributes["bar"] = "aaa'bbb\"ccc"
>   foo.write(foo_str)
>   p foo_str         #=> "<foo bar='aaa'bbb\"ccc'/>"
> 
> is odd.

Worse, it's not XML.  I would vote for automatic encoding of the quote characters to help avoid this type of error.


James

> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> TAKAHASHI Masayoshi (maki@inac.co.jp)
>