Rails - May 2005 - html escaping user supplied strings with CollectionTable and Builder::XmlMarkup

Hi,
What is the *right* way to use something like
the CollectionTable for automating generation
of tables from Enumerable''s while html escaping
the data, and generating markup using XmlMarkup?
I must be blind because I don''t see how this is
done in e.g. eXPlainPMT which I am using for my
best practices tutorial.  xml << mytable.build_table
just returns whatever it gets, literally, from
the db, right?

BTW, I''m *really* enjoying the design of RoR;
I was victimized by a legacy 1000 line jsp file
with no language discipline *at all* last fall
and I think I finally got the last laugh...
magnifico!

Best,
Russell