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# Builder 2.0.0 Released.

## Changes in 2.0.0

- UTF-8 characters in data are now correctly translated to their XML equivalents. (Thanks to Sam Ruby)

- Attribute values are now escaped by default. See the README file for details.

NOTE: The escaping attribute values by default is different than in previous releases of Builder. This makes version 2.0.0 somewhat incompatible with the 1.x series of Builder. If you use "&", "<", or ">" in attributes values, you may have to change your code. (Essentially you remove the manual escaping. The new way is easier, believe me).

## What is Builder?

Builder::XmlMarkup is a library that allows easy programmatic creation of XML markup. For example:

    builder = Builder::XmlMarkup.new(:target=>STDOUT, :indent=>2)
    builder.person { |b| b.name("Jim"); b.phone("555-1234") }

will generate:

    <person>
      <name>Jim</name>
      <phone>555-1234</phone>
    </person>

## Availability

The easiest way to get and install builder is via RubyGems ...

    gem install builder    (you may need root/admin privileges)

## Thanks

- Sam Ruby for the XChar module and the related UTF-8 translation tools.

- Also to Sam Ruby for gently persuading me to start quoting attribute values.

-- Jim Weirich

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