From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-11-16T05:37:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25332] Re: ANN: REXML 1.1a3

Sean Russell wrote:


>   element.text = "cats & &#100;ogs"
> 
> When you write out the element, '&' will be converted, and the entity will 
> be ignored.


which entity? do you mean the NCR?


> When you *read* an XML source, '&amp;', '&lt;', and '&gt;' are converted to 
> '&', '<', and '>' automatically for you, for convenience;


what is output then? '&amp;', '&lt;', and '&gt;'
?

all other 
> entities are ignored.  Unquoted '&', '<', and '>' generate errors.


What does unquoted mean here? What would quoted and unquoted ones look like?

Tobi




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