class String

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Enhance the String class with a XML escaped character version of to_s.

Public Instance Methods

_blankslate_as_name() click to toggle source
   # File lib/blankslate.rb
14 def _blankslate_as_name
15   to_sym
16 end
to_xs(escape=true) click to toggle source

XML escaped version of to_s. When escape is set to false the CP1252 fix is still applied but utf-8 characters are not converted to character entities.

    # File lib/builder/xchar.rb
192 def to_xs(escape=true)
193   unpack('U*').map {|n| n.xchr(escape)}.join # ASCII, UTF-8
194 rescue
195   unpack('C*').map {|n| n.xchr}.join # ISO-8859-1, WIN-1252
196 end