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have_tag/assert_select does not validate XML with periods in attribute names
Reported by T.J. VanSlyke | April 28th, 2008 @ 05:25 PM
While creating specs for a method to generate valid GraphML, I needed to use attributes with periods ('.') in their names (i.e. ''). However, as it stands, assert_select uses the HTML::Node.parse method to parse its input. This method does not allow periods in attribute names (the valid characters are represented by the regex /[-\w:\]+/). My temporary solution was to monkeypatch the HTML::Node.parse method in my spec_helpers.rb to accept periods by changing the regex to read /[-\w:\.]+/. However, that is obviously not a reasonable solution.
Is anyone aware of this issue? If so, is it a problem inherent in Rails or am I missing some kind of alternative XML parser which allows for this syntax?
Thanks all!
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josh June 13th, 2008 @ 06:46 AM
- State changed from “new” to “invalid”
I'd ask around on the Ruby on Rails mailing list.
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