On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:17:32 -0700, Stedwick wrote: > I have this line in my XML file that was created by REXML > > <episode name='03x08 - Future's End ~ 1' rating='100'> > > And I simply cannot access that element using REXML, at all, in any way, > no matter what, as far as I can tell... > > I have tried escaping the apostrophes, I have tried converting them to > ', I have tried both directly accessing the element and using > XPath, nothing works. > > Does anybody have any tricks for how to access elements that have > attributes with apostrophes in their names? Thanks! This has been discussed at http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/117253 When will REXML support parameterized XPath queries (the way *all* SQL databases support parameterized SQL queries)? --Ken -- Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/