How do I use Nokogiri XML Builder with a field that is the word "text"?

Question

I think "text" must be a special form because when I use xml.text "hello" the tag doesn't appear in the xml doc. Whatever follows that tag is simply listed without a . I tried to use send.(:"text", "hello") but that doesn't work either.

Ideas?

Answer 1

Which means you need to put an underscore after the tag name.

Just to clarify with an example for anyone else who might be searching for this (such as I was):

builder = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
  xml.questions {
    xml.question {
      xml.text_ "What is your name?"
    }
    xml.question {
      xml.text_ "What is your favourite colour?"
    }
  }
end

Answer 2

I solved it using the "special tags" in Nokogiri.