Ruby convert single quotes to double quotes in XML
As of Feb 2007 there's a supported way of determining the quoting character. The changes were merged into Ruby sources on Jul 2007 and should be available on all versions since 1.8.6-p110:
require 'rexml/document'doc = REXML::Document.newdoc.context[:attribute_quote] = :quote # <-- Set double-quote as the attribute value delimiterroot = doc.add_element('root')root.add_attribute('val', '123')doc.write(STDOUT)Running that yields:
$ ruby test.rb<root val="123"/>$
I've seen this code around to do this. But it's from a 2003 mailing list post that also promises a more elegant (and supported) way of doing it. Might not be the best, but it could work, give it a try.
REXML::Attribute.class_eval( %q^ def to_string %Q[#@expanded_name="#{to_s().gsub(/"/, '"')}"] end ^ )