http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/09/03/hpricot-did-something-less-than-delightful en-us 40 <p>I have a Rails application that uses <a href="http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/">Hpricot</a>, "a fast and delightful HTML parser" for Ruby.</p> <p>It seems, however, that this <a href="http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/changeset?old_path=%2F&amp;old=139&amp;new_path=%2F&amp;new=139">change</a> (the one in <code>xchar.rb</code>, specifically), present in 0.6, but not 0.5 causes the <code>inner_text</code> method to fail less than gracefully, spitting out a ? character instead of simply letting through the unescaped text. I was depending on the latter behavior, so this change blew up my code. It's a good thing I caught it before going to production.</p> <p>Other than that, I've been very happy with Hpricot, and it is indeed quite quick and useful.</p> Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:52:00 -0700 urn:uuid:e0e321b5-3205-496d-a9a3-24ea39e45524 David N. Welton http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/09/03/hpricot-did-something-less-than-delightful ruby http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/trackback/1806