From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-10-22T18:16:08+09:00
Subject: Re: rexml create a tag with literal characters

2008/10/22 Onno Faber <onno@faber.nu>:
> 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.

XML parse the string yourself and add those nodes to the document.  Example:

require 'rexml/document'

# create the doc
master = REXML::Document.new("<root/>")
puts master

# find the node - either way
root = master[1]
root = master.elements['//root']

# parse the sub tree
sub = REXML::Document.new "<some>test data</some>"

# add the subtree
root.add sub

# see what we got
puts master

Kind regards

robert

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