new

Constructor

arg

if not supplied, will be set to the default value. If a String, the name of this object will be set to the argument. If an Element, the object will be shallowly cloned; name, attributes, and namespaces will be copied. Children will not be copied.

parent

if supplied, must be a Parent, and will be used as the parent of this object.

context

If supplied, must be a hash containing context items. Context items include:

• :respect_whitespace the value of this is :all or an array of strings being the names of the elements to respect whitespace for. Defaults to :all.

• :compress_whitespace the value can be :all or an array of strings being the names of the elements to ignore whitespace on. Overrides :respect_whitespace.

• :ignore_whitespace_nodes the value can be :all or an array of strings being the names of the elements in which to ignore whitespace-only nodes. If this is set, Text nodes which contain only whitespace will not be added to the document tree.

• :raw can be :all, or an array of strings being the names of the elements to process in raw mode. In raw mode, special characters in text is not converted to or from entities.