quoting bug

[patrick]

when reading an xml file containing escaped characters in node attributes (e.g. <entry name="&quotblah&quot" />) and not touching these attributes before saving the document again the quotes get quoted again (e.g. <entry name="&amp;quotblah&amp;quot" />).

Here is a little program which demonstrates that.

[patrick]

run init once, and resave several times

[patrick]

run init once and resave several time

[patrick]

Here is a workaround (apply this function to the root node before saving):

def touch_all_attributes( node )

node.attributes.each do |name, value|

node.attributes[name] = value

end node.elements.each do |el|

touch_all_attributes( el )

end

end