From: Tachikoma <ikari.shinji.eva@...>
Date: 2008-07-22T21:14:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Source code to XML

On Jul 22, 6:17 pm, Tommy Nordgren <tommy.nordg...@comhem.se> wrote:
> I need to generate DocBook ProgramListing xincludes from a source code  
> file.
> How can I escape characters that is not valid in text : < > " &
>
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> Tommy Nordgren
> tommy.nordg...@comhem.se

irb(main):020:0> require 'rexml/text'
=> true
irb(main):021:0> REXML::Text.normalize("Some & text < foo > \" bar")
=> "Some &amp; text &lt; foo &gt; &quot; bar"

this may help