From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2003-06-24T10:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML and double, rather than single quotes

On Tue 24 Jun 2003 at 10:02:02 +0900, Sean Russell wrote:

> Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> wrote in message news:<20030622205120.GE3769@caliban.org>...
> > I have to format output for an application that requires its XML to
> > have attributes quoted using double, not single quotes.
> > 
> > Is there any way to coerce REXML into producing double-quotes?
> 
> Soon, young Jedi.  I'm adding some more configurable XML writers to
> REXML 3.0.
> 
> FYI, the application is not XML conformant if it doesn't accept single
> quotes around attributes.

Yes, I know. I couldn't believe it when I finally discovered why my
files weren't being accepted.

> In the meantime, if you really need this and are willing to hack the
> sources, override REXML::Attribute::to_string().  Do something like
> this in the application that generates the XML:
> 
> 	REXML::Attribute.class_eval( %q^
> 		def to_string
> 			%Q[#@expanded_name="#{to_s().gsub(/"/, '&quot;')}"]
> 		end
> 	^ )
> 
> This will rewrite the method that is used to produce the XML fragment
> for an Attribute.

Thanks very much, Sean.

Ian
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