On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:50 PM, David Kahn <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> David Kahn wrote in post #958607: >> > Cant seem to find an answer to this on google: >> > >> > If I have this value as the text within an attribute in my xml source: >> > "a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw==\n" >> > >> > When I ask Nokogiri to return it, why does it return this: >> > "a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw== " (the last character I confirmed in the >> > debugger >> > as a space character). So it seems Nokogiri is converting the "\n" to a >> > space. >> > >> > Is there a way to tell Nokogiri to return verbatim? I am dealing with >> > encrypted data and this modification which it is making to the xml >> > source is >> > significant? >> >> You probably need to use the xml:space attribute in your source >> document, or at least that's the impression I get from >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256097.aspx . >> > > Thanks Marnen - that was a really good idea, I just tried it in the console > and it does not seem to help for the "\n" (results below) is it possible > there is some other setting which would preserve the "\n"? This is really > strange to me as these characters are within a string literal.. but it > actually does also surprise me about the spaces. > > # without the xml:space="preserve" > ruby > doc_enc = "<BORROWER > _SSN=\"a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw==\n\"></BORROWER>" > => "<BORROWER _SSN=\"a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw==\n\"></BORROWER>" > ruby > Nokogiri::XML(doc_enc) > => #<Nokogiri::XML::Document:0x12ff91c name="document" > children=[#<Nokogiri::XML::Element:0x12ff71e name="BORROWER" > attributes=[#<Nokogiri::XML::Attr:0x12ff6d8 name="_SSN" > value="a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw== ">]>]> > ruby > nd = Nokogiri::XML(doc_enc) > => #<Nokogiri::XML::Document:0x12fded2 name="document" > children=[#<Nokogiri::XML::Element:0x12fdcac name="BORROWER" > attributes=[#<Nokogiri::XML::Attr:0x12fdc3e name="_SSN" > value="a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw== ">]>]> > ruby > nd.xpath("BORROWER").attribute("_SSN").value > => "a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw== " > > # with xml:space=\"preserve\" > ruby > doc_enc = "<BORROWER xml:space=\"preserve\" > _SSN=\"a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw==\ > => "<BORROWER xml:space=\"preserve\" > _SSN=\"a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw==\n\"></BORROWER>" > ruby > Nokogiri::XML(doc_enc) => #<Nokogiri::XML::Document:0x12f7244 > name="document" children=[#<Nokogiri::XML::Element:0x12f708c name="BORROWER" > attributes=[#<Nokogiri::XML::Attr:0x12f705a name="space" > namespace=#<Nokogiri::XML::Namespace:0x12f6f56 prefix="xml" href=" > http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace";> value="preserve">, > #<Nokogiri::XML::Attr:0x12f7050 name="_SSN" value="a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw== > ">]>]> > ruby > > nd.xpath("BORROWER").attribute("_SSN").value => > "a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw== " > ruby > > What seems even more insane is that if I wrap the encrypted string in characters (pipe in this case), it still takes away my "\n": => "<BORROWER xml:space=\"preserve\" _SSN=\"|a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw==\n|\"></BORROWER>" ruby-1.9.2-p0 > Nokogiri::XML(doc_enc) => #<Nokogiri::XML::Document:0x12eb1d8 name="document" children=[#<Nokogiri::XML::Element:0x12eafd0 name="BORROWER" attributes=[#<Nokogiri::XML::Attr:0x12eaf94 name="space" namespace=#<Nokogiri::XML::Namespace:0x12eaea4 prefix="xml" href=" http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace";> value="preserve">, *#<Nokogiri::XML::Attr:0x12eaf8a name="_SSN" value="|a2/PP00nFwWa7I8Jog7bcw== |">]>]>* > > > >> Best, >> -- >> Marnen Laibow-Koser >> http://www.marnen.org >> [email protected] >> >> -- >> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
