How to prevent Nokogiri from escape sequence replacement?

Question

I have a text node like so:

<string>Lorem Ipsum - All the &quot;facts&quot;.</string>

When I try to open and edit the document with this:

doc = Nokogiri::XML(File.open(doc_name))
doc.search("//string[text() = '...']").remove

I get this in the actual document:

<string>Lorem Ipsum - All the "facts".</string>

Is there a way to save " ?? Expected result:

<string>Lorem Ipsum - All the &quot;facts&quot;.</string>

Possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7756123/nokogiri-leaving-html-entities-untouched — Pavel Oganesyan, Aug 08 '19 at 14:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 09 '19 at 08:32

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You can try this approach:

require 'nokogiri'
doc_name = 'strings.xml'
output_file_name = "out.xml"
doc = Nokogiri::XML(File.open(doc_name))
doc.search("//string[text() = '...']").remove
doc.search('//text()').each { |node| node.content = CGI.escape_html(node.text) }
end
File.write(output_file_name, doc.to_xml)

It simply escapes all text inside tags but keeps tags untouched.

answered Aug 09 '19 at 08:32

Pavel Oganesyan

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it changes " to " in my case need to save " – Eric Russo Aug 12 '19 at 10:50
Oh, this can be a problem https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6906705/how-to-save-unescaped-in-nokogiri-xml – Pavel Oganesyan Aug 12 '19 at 11:08

How to prevent Nokogiri from escape sequence replacement?

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