From: Rob Hunter <rob.hunter@...>
Date: 2007-08-31T06:11:19+09:00
Subject: Preventing "collapse" of HTML tags during XML parse

I'm trying to avoid having

<textarea id="foo"></textarea>

turn into

<textarea />

But this is exactly what happens to me in both XmlSimple and REXML:

irb(main):028:0> print
XmlSimple.xml_out(XmlSimple.xml_in("<opt><textarea id=\"foo\"></tex\
tarea></opt>"))
<opt>
  <textarea id="foo" />
</opt>

The problem is that

<textarea />

doesn't render in a browser.

Does anyone know of a way to avoid this in either library?  Or, should I
be doing this another way?

Thanks,
Rob
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