uninitialized constant Hpricot::XChar

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Hello,

I'm using Hpricot in a Rails app. I'm trying to modify how it parses non-breaking space entities ( ) so that they are converted into spaces when using Hpricot's inner_text (instead of being converted to the corresponding unicode code point). To do this, I am trying this...

Hpricot::XChar::PREDEFINED_U.merge!({" " => 32})

as suggested in http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/ticket/137#comment:4

I've put that line at the beginning of the controller where I'm using Hpricot, and the problem is that when I try to run that code I get the error...

uninitialized constant Hpricot::XChar

Any idea about why this is happenning? I'm using Rails 2.1.0

Thanks in advance.

xavi

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I don't know what could be causing that error but my suggestion would be that, if you can't fix it, just modify the resulting string with gsub. That's the best I can come up with.

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XChar implementation seems to be replaced by "c" based implementation

Changing the above statement to Hpricot::PREDEFINED_U.merge!({" " => 32}) seems to execute without errors. I didn't had time to test it out...