From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-11-25T10:36:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Make RDoc escape inner element strings

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 00:33, Jose Fernandez <jose@umn.edu> wrote:
> I updated to 2.2.1 but it still wont escape the < > characters in the
> fr_method_index.html file (which I need to parse), only in the actual
> documentation.

Now I see. I've reported this to rdoc's tracker [1] along with a patch:

Index: lib/rdoc/generator/html.rb
===================================================================
--- lib/rdoc/generator/html.rb	(revision 192)
+++ lib/rdoc/generator/html.rb	(working copy)
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@
     res = []
     collection.sort.each do |f|
       if f.document_self
-        res << { "href" => f.path, "name" => f.index_name }
+        res << { "href" => f.path, "name" => CGI.escapeHTML(f.index_name) }
       end
     end


i.e.

- open C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\rdoc-2.2.1\lib\rdoc\generator\html.rb
- go to line 256
- add "CGI.escapeHTML("
- close the parenthesis

Jano

[1] http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22968&group_id=627&atid=2472