method

new

ruby latest stable - Class: REXML::Document

new( source = nil, context = {} )

public

Constructor @param source if supplied, must be a Document, String, or IO. Documents have their context and Element attributes cloned. Strings are expected to be valid XML documents. IOs are expected to be sources of valid XML documents. @param context if supplied, contains the context of the document; this should be a Hash.

# File lib/rexml/document.rb, line 36
    def initialize( source = nil, context = {} )
      @entity_expansion_count = 0
      super()
      @context = context
      return if source.nil?
      if source.kind_of? Document
        @context = source.context
        super source
      else
        build(  source )
      end
    end

new

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