From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2004-02-06T02:15:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating mixed content elements in REXML

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 09:40:02 +0900, Francis Hwang wrote:
> Say I have a string that represents an XML element that I want to embed
> into a REXML::Element, how would I do this?
>
> For example, if I have:

> xhtml_elt = REXML::Element.new( 'xhtml' )
> xhtml_string = "<p>foo <strong>bar</strong></p>"

> Is there a way I could get to:

> puts xhtml_elt.to_s
> => <xhtml><p>foo <strong>bar</strong></p></xhtml>

xhtml_elt << REXML::Document.new(xhtml_string).elements[1]
puts xhtml_elt.to_s

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2004.02.05
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