Rexml create a tag with literal characters

Ruby
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I’m having a problem finding out how to parse literal characters into a
new tag using rexml. I’m creating an excel xml document using rexml:
xml.instruct! :xml, :version=>“1.0”, :encoding=>“UTF-8”

In the document, I’m creating a “Data” tag, and parsing the content of
the variable “content_line” in it:
xml.Data content_line, ‘ss:Type’ => ‘String’

The thing is that the data in “content_line” contains simple tags like
and . I want to preserve this, as excel can read these
tags out and format the document. However, the output is as follows:
<u>

Is there any way I can prevent this encoding from happening? So far I
was not able to find the answer.

Thank you, Onno

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2008/10/22 Onno F. [email protected]:

tags out and format the document. However, the output is as follows:
<u>

Is there any way I can prevent this encoding from happening? So far I
was not able to find the answer.

XML parse the string yourself and add those nodes to the document.
Example:

require ‘rexml/document’

create the doc

master = REXML::Document.new(“”)
puts master

find the node - either way

root = master[1]
root = master.elements[‘//root’]

parse the sub tree

sub = REXML::Document.new “test data”

add the subtree

root.add sub

see what we got

puts master

Kind regards

robert