Should be obvious
Write the XML tree out, optionally with indent. This writes out the entire XML document, including XML declarations, doctype declarations, and processing instructions (if any are given).
A controversial point is whether Document should always write the XML declaration (<?xml version=‘1.0’?>) whether or not one is given by the user (or source document). REXML does not write one if one was not specified, because it adds unnecessary bandwidth to applications such as XML-RPC.
Accept Nth argument style and options Hash style as argument. The recommended style is options Hash style for one or more arguments case.
Examples
Document.new("<a><b/></a>").write output = "" Document.new("<a><b/></a>").write(output) output = "" Document.new("<a><b/></a>").write(:output => output, :indent => 2)
See also the classes in the rexml/formatters package for the proper way to change the default formatting of XML output.
Examples
output = "" tr = Transitive.new tr.write(Document.new("<a><b/></a>"), output)
output an object which supports ‘<< string’; this is where the document will be written.
An integer. If -1, no indenting will be used; otherwise, the indentation will be twice this number of spaces, and children will be indented an additional amount. For a value of 3, every item will be indented 3 more levels, or 6 more spaces (2 * 3). Defaults to -1
If transitive is true and indent is >= 0, then the output will be pretty-printed in such a way that the added whitespace does not affect the absolute value of the document – that is, it leaves the value and number of Text nodes in the document unchanged.
This hack inserts a space before the /> on empty tags to address a limitation of Internet Explorer. Defaults to false
Encoding name as String. Change output encoding to specified encoding instead of encoding in XML declaration. Defaults to nil. It means encoding in XML declaration is used.
Creates a shallow copy of self.
d = Document.new "<a><b/><b/><c><d/></c></a>" new_a = d.root.clone puts new_a # => "<a/>"
Evaluates to the URI for a prefix, or the empty string if no such namespace is declared for this element. Evaluates recursively for ancestors. Returns the default namespace, if there is one.
the prefix to search for. If not supplied, returns the default namespace if one exists
the namespace URI as a String, or nil if no such namespace exists. If the namespace is undefined, returns an empty string
doc = Document.new("<a xmlns='1' xmlns:y='2'><b/><c xmlns:z='3'/></a>") b = doc.elements['//b'] b.namespace # -> '1' b.namespace("y") # -> '2'
Writes out this element, and recursively, all children.
output an object which supports ‘<< string’; this is where the
document will be written.
An integer. If -1, no indenting will be used; otherwise, the indentation will be this number of spaces, and children will be indented an additional amount. Defaults to -1
If transitive is true and indent is >= 0, then the output will be pretty-printed in such a way that the added whitespace does not affect the parse tree of the document
This hack inserts a space before the /> on empty tags to address a limitation of Internet Explorer. Defaults to false
out = '' doc.write( out ) #-> doc is written to the string 'out' doc.write( $stdout ) #-> doc written to the console
Private helper class. Removes quotes from quoted strings
Write out a fully formed, correct entity definition (assuming the Entity object itself is valid.)
An object implementing <TT><<<TT> to which the entity will be output
DEPRECATED and ignored
FIXME This probably won’t work properly
Ignored. There must be no whitespace before an XML declaration
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