From: Onno Faber <onno@...>
Date: 2008-10-22T17:06:13+09:00
Subject: rexml create a tag with literal characters

I'm having a problem finding out how to parse literal characters into a
new tag using rexml. I'm creating an excel xml document using rexml:
xml.instruct! :xml, :version=>"1.0", :encoding=>"UTF-8"

In the document, I'm creating a "Data" tag, and parsing the content of
the variable "content_line" in it:
xml.Data content_line, 'ss:Type' => 'String'

The thing is that the data in "content_line" contains simple tags like
<u></u> and <b></b>. I want to preserve this, as excel can read these
tags out and format the document. However, the output is as follows:
&lt;u&gt;

Is there any way I can prevent this encoding from happening? So far I
was not able to find the answer.

Thank you, Onno
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