How do I build an XML type with a dash(hyphen) in it?

[Wayne Brissette]

I'm running into an issue where our CMS vendor has specialized one of
the XML doc types. It is <referable-content>

In builder when I try to use the dash it thinks I'm trying to perform a
math operation. I tried quoting it, but that didn't work either... Is
there a way to do this?

-Wayne

[Mike Dalessio]

Not totally sure if this is what you're asking, but:

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

require "nokogiri"

builder = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
  xml.root {
    xml.products {
      xml.send("referable-content") {
        xml.id_ "10"
        xml.name "Awesome widget"
      }
    }
  }
end
puts builder.to_xml

generates:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <products>
    <referable-content>
      <id>10</id>
      <name>Awesome widget</name>
    </referable-content>
  </products>
</root>

Tag names are simply a message being sent to the builder object, which intercepts with #method_missing. Does that make sense?

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[Wayne Brissette]

Ah... just found an answer on stackoverflow that Aaron posted on how to
do it. A bit messy since this is the parent element for 98% of the
content, but I'll make it work.

-Wayne

[Wayne Brissette]

Thanks Mike. That's exactly what I was after. I'm still not sure why our
CMS vendor used a hyphen.

-Wayne