Normalizing XML tag values

[Alexey Verkhovsky]

Hi all,

I am looking for some piece of Ruby code that normalizes XML attribute
values (i.e., replaces '<' with '&@60;', etc).

I need it for this project: http://rubyforge.org/projects/test-report/,
and I am sure that somebody has already invented this particular bicycle
in Ruby.

Best regards,
Alex

 

[Sam Stephenson]

I am looking for some piece of Ruby code that normalizes XML attribute
values (i.e., replaces '<' with '&@60;', etc).

I'm not sure what &@60; is. Is this what you mean?

| irb(main):001:0> require 'rexml/text'
| => true

Best regards,
Alex

Sam

 

[Alexey Verkhovsky]

I'm not sure what &@60; is. Is this what you mean? [snip]
| irb(main):002:0> REXML::Text.normalize '<foo & bar>'
| => "&lt;foo &amp; bar&gt;"

Yes, that's it. Thanks!

I mistakenly thought that rexml was only for parsing XML. Now I know
that it's also for writing

Best regards,
Alex