Ezra Zygmuntowicz
12/16/2005 4:34:00 AM
On Dec 15, 2005, at 5:47 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> is there know way to do this
>>>
>>> require "rexml/document"
>>>
>>> include REXML
>>>
>>> Text::new " i < know & what i'm doing "
>>>
>>> it seems not...
>>
>> I am not sure, what you want to do, but perhaps
>>
>> Text.unnormalize(" i < know & what i'm doing ") is the answer?
>>
>> REXML won't let this into the element hierarchy, afaik.
>
> it will - you just have to trick it:
>
> element.text =
> ::REXML::Text::new(
> string_we_want_untouched,
> respect_whitespace=true,
> parent=nil,
> raw=true,
> entity_filter=nil,
> illegal=%r/.^/m # match nothing!
> )
>
> sean, if you're reading this a feature in the api to allow this
> would be great.
>
> cheers.
>
> -a
>
Ahh thats what the non matching regex was for...
Cheers-
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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