From: Brian Marick <marick@...>
Date: 2003-11-09T05:57:57+09:00
Subject: SOAP4R throws exception on copyright character

Lots of web pages contain copyright characters (not &copy; but 
something that displays in Mozilla view source as the copyright symbol, 
in emacs as a square box, and probably says to the world "Hi! I'm an 
HTML file that was created with Word."). SOAP4r is unhappy with that 
character, as you can see in this use of the googleSearch sample:

% ruby wsdlDriver.rb 'Mark Swanson'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xsd/datatypes.rb:184:in `_set': 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}string: cannot accept 'Artwork by 
<b>Mark</b> <b>Swanson</b> Copyright �� 2002 <b>Mark</b> 
<b>Swanson</b>. All rights reserved. '. (XSD::ValueSpaceError)
	from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/xsd/datatypes.rb:125:in `set'
	from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/encodingstyle/soapHandler.rb:446:in 
`decode_textbuf'
	from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/encodingstyle/soapHandler.rb:223:in 
`decode_tag_end'

In contrast, the Java version that comes with the Google API download 
prints the peculiar character.

This is easy for me to work around, just comment out the check in 
XSDString#_set:

   def _set(value)
     unless XSD::Charset.is_ces(value, XSD::Charset.encoding)
       raise ValueSpaceError.new("#{ type }: cannot accept '#{ value 
}'.")
     end
     @data = value
   end

My questions:
1) Is there a better workaround?
     Or something I'm misunderstanding?
2) Is this behavior something that
      should be changed in SOAP4r?
3) Is Google in error in delivering
      that character in that type of string?

I am using ruby 1.8.1-preview2 and the code from soap4r-1_5_1.

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