Rails - Nov 2005 - Builder / rxml views: hyphens in XML element names

I''m having a strange problem with an rxml view - it won''t let
me put hyphens
in the names of XML elements.

The original problem line was:

xml.VISA-SSL do

But in any other place, if I insert a hyphen into the name of any arbitrary 
element, I get the following kind of error:

undefined method `theTextAfterTheHyphen'' for
#<#<Class:0xb7617180>:0xb7616f28>

Does anyone know what''s going on here?  It''s essential that I
can put a hyphen
into this element name, since the XML DTD I must conform to specifies it.

I''ve Googled but I can''t seem to find anyone else having the
same problem.
Could someone else with some rxml views try it and confirm they also get the 
above error when inserting a hyphen into an element name?

I''m running Ruby 1.8.2 / Rails 0.14.3 on Gentoo Linux.

Thanks for your help!

~Dave

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Dave Silvester
Rent-A-Monkey Website Development
Web: http://www.rentamonkey.com/

On Thursday 03 Nov 2005 14:17, Dave Silvester wrote:
> I''m having a strange problem with an rxml view - it won''t
let me put
> hyphens in the names of XML elements.
>
> The original problem line was:
> xml.VISA-SSL do
Found a solution, just in case others ever need to search on this, because 
Google didn''t seem to turn up anything and I couldn''t find any
special cases
mentioned - here''s how to do it:

xml.tag! "VISA-SSL" do

Still not sure if this is a bug or not, but the above is a workaround.

Cheers to the guy on IRC who alerted me to the presence of a command that lets 
you specifically insert a tag - which is the explicit version of the one 
invoked by method_missing.

I guess it''s just a freak case of slightly ambiguous syntax causing the
problem.

~Dave

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Dave Silvester
Rent-A-Monkey Website Development
Web: http://www.rentamonkey.com/