From: matt@... (matt neuburg)
Date: 2008-07-12T00:00:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Unescape xml element content

Jon Stenqvist <jon@equipe.nu> wrote:

> Is there a way to unescape this string?
> 
> <name>L&#xE4;tt B bed. Tv&#xE5; omg&#xE5;ngar A:0 och A:0</name>

I think this works correctly:

require 'rexml/document'
s = "<name>L&#xE4;tt B bed. Tv&#xE5; omg&#xE5;ngar A:0 och A:0</name>"
puts REXML::Text::unnormalize(s)

m.
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