REXML and entities

Hi,

I’ve been trying to use REXML to process an XML file with entities,
but I can’t seem to get it to leave my entities alone even with the
:raw context set. The simplified example looks something like this:


song.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE Song [


]>

&convoy;
&rubberduck;

script.rb:

doc = Document.new File.open(‘song.xml’, ‘r’), { :raw => :all }

doc.elements.each(‘Song/lyric’) do |lyric|
puts lyric.raw # This prints ‘true’
puts lyric.text # This always has its entities decoded!
end

output:

true
we got a great big convoy
true
ain’t she a beautiful sight

desired output:

true
&convoy;
true
&rubberduck;

When I take out the { :raw => :all } part, the entry.raw line returns
nil, but the output isn’t changed. Am I misunderstanding how this is
supposed to work, or is it broken? How can I get the entities back in
an unencoded form? This is driving me crazy.

Thanks!

-Pawel