bug fix: Invalid tags which begin with # are now transformed into com…

…ment tags.

lib/rowx.rb

@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ class RowX
 
   def initialize(txt, level: nil)
 
-    a = LineTree.new(txt.gsub(/^-*$/m,''), level: level, ignore_blank_lines: false).to_a
+    a = LineTree.new(txt.gsub(/^-*$/m,''), \
+                                level: level, ignore_blank_lines: false).to_a
     keyfield = a[0][0][/\w+:/]; i = 0
 
     # find the keyfield. if there's only 1 keyfield in all of the rows it's 
@@ -60,9 +61,15 @@ def scan_a(row)
 
       value, name = s.split(':',2).reverse
       name ||= 'description'
-
+      
       children = scan_a(field[1..-1]) if field[-1] .is_a?(Array) 
-      value = value.to_s.strip.gsub('<','&lt;').gsub('>','&gt;')
+      value = value.to_s.strip.gsub('<','&lt;').gsub('>','&gt;')      
+
+      # it's a line which has been commented out?
+      if name[0] == '#' then
+        value = name[1..-1] + ': ' + value
+        name = '!-' 
+      end
 
       result = [name, {}, value]
       result << children if children
@@ -78,4 +85,4 @@ def scan_records(row, level)
 
   end
 
-end
+end

lib/rowx.rb~

@@ -78,4 +78,4 @@ class RowX
 
   end
 
-end
+end

rowx.gemspec

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = 'rowx'
-  s.version = '0.4.0'
+  s.version = '0.4.1'
   s.summary = 'rowx'
   s.description = 'Generates XML from rows of labelled, nested, and plain text' 
   s.authors = ['James Robertson']