How to not escape ampersand in the attribute of an element?

[abdulowork]

Hi!

I am trying to create an element with attribute that looks like:

<MyElement
    myAttribute = "Hello&#10;World">
</MyElement>

which I am doing the the following code:

my_attribute = REXML::Text.new('Hello
World')

my_element = REXML::Element.new('MyElement')
my_element.attributes['myAttribute'] = my_attribute

my_element.to_s

and I get Hello
World in the attribute. I also tried using the raw flag for the Text and the { :raw => :all } context for the Element but that removes only a single amp;.

Am I missing something? How can I get to my desired output?

[kou]

If you want to use raw value, you need to use REXML::Attribute instead of REXML::Text:

my_attribute = REXML::Attribute.new('myAttribute', 'Hello
World')

my_element = REXML::Element.new('MyElement')
my_element.attributes['myAttribute'] = my_attribute

my_element.to_s