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rexml/comment.rb
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Parent: | Child |
Represents an XML comment; that is, text between <!— … —>
START | = | "" |
string | [RW] |
Constructor. The first argument can be one of three types: @param first If String, the contents of this comment are set to the argument. If Comment, the argument is duplicated. If Source, the argument is scanned for a comment. @param second If the first argument is a Source, this argument should be nil, not supplied, or a Parent to be set as the parent of this object
# File rexml/comment.rb, line 21 def initialize( first, second = nil ) #puts "IN COMMENT CONSTRUCTOR; SECOND IS #{second.type}" super(second) if first.kind_of? String @string = first elsif first.kind_of? Comment @string = first.string end end
output: | Where to write the string |
indent: | An integer. If -1, no indenting will be used; otherwise, the indentation will be this number of spaces, and children will be indented an additional amount. |
transitive: | Who knows? |
ie_hack: | Internet Explorer is the worst piece of crap to have ever been written, with the possible exception of Windows itself. Since IE is unable to parse proper XML, we have to provide a hack to generate XML that IE’s limited abilities can handle. This hack inserts a space before the /> on empty tags. |
# File rexml/comment.rb, line 50 def write( output, indent=-1, transitive=false, ie_hack=false ) indent( output, indent ) output << START output << @string output << STOP end