Phlip wrote:
>> Meanwhile try something like the following:
> 
> Thanks but...
> 
>> require 'rexml/document'
>> foo = REXML::Document.new("<foo/>")
>> bar = REXML::Formatters::Default.new
> 
> Now my Ruby 1.8.6-111 can't get around this:
> 
>   uninitialized constant REXML::Formatters
> 
> The source drop just contains:
> 
>   /usr/lib/lib/ruby/1.8/rexml$ ls formatter*
>   default.rb  pretty.rb  transitive.rb
> 
> No formatters.rb to anchor them, so I can't just require 
> 'rexml/formatters'. And  http://www.google.com/codesearch doesn't show 
> any such thing waiting in the wings...

I guess I'll let Sean take it from here, other than to note that .to_s 
on an element still works...

- Sam Ruby