Rails - Jun 2006 - escaping quotes for generating xml

Hi,

I need to have my controller return xml from db content.  Is there a method
I can call to clean up the text for xml rendering?  I tried CGI:escapeHTML,
but forgot it would ignore quotes.  some of the db content is going in xml
attributes so the quotes need escaping.


thanks.
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Larry White wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to have my controller return xml from db content.  Is there a 
> method
> I can call to clean up the text for xml rendering?  I tried 
> CGI:escapeHTML,
> but forgot it would ignore quotes.  some of the db content is going in 
> xml
> attributes so the quotes need escaping.
> 
> 
> thanks.
I just tried this:
irb(main):009:0> a1 =
REXML::Attribute.new(''x'',"y''z''a")
=> x=''y'z'a''

Maybe using the REXML module will help?

Cheers

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