XML Element attributes

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Hi.

I'm trying to create an XML file of the following schema:

<data>   <event start = "July 12 2007 " end="July 14 2007 ">      Some description text here    </event>   <event start = "July 20 2007 " end="July 30 2007 ">      Some description text here    </event> </data>

And I only managed to accomplish the following schema:

<data>     <event>       <start>July 12 2007</start>       <end>July 14 2007</end>       <p> Some description text here </p>      </event>       <start>July 20 2007</start>       <end>July 30 2007</end>       <p> Some description text here </p> </data>

using the following codes:

xml.instruct! :xml, :version=>"1.0" xml.data{   for vac in @vacations     xml.event do     xml.start(vac.start_date.strftime"%B %d %Y" )     xml.end (vac.end_date.strftime"%B %d %Y" )     xml.p(vac.description)     end   end }

Can someone help point out how I may accomplish that? Having the element in the format of <event start = "...." end="..." >Some text here </event>

Thank you in advance for your help.

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Hi,

I'm trying to create an XML file of the following schema: <data>   <event start = "July 12 2007 " end="July 14 2007 ">      Some description text here    you can pass the text of the tag as the first parameter and any attributes as a hash.

xml.event 'Some description text', :start=>'July 12 2007', :end=>'July 14 2007'

regards,

javier ramirez

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It works great for me. Thank you SO much Javier for your help.