From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T21:55:38+09:00
Subject: Re: problems with xslt4r

Ralf M�ller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to use 'xslt4r', because i cannot install libxml2 + libxslt for 
> libxslt (ruby).
> But i get theses errors when invoking xpath from 'xmlscan':
> 
> ram@lilith:~/src/xml$irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'xpath'
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/xpath.rb:10: warning: Object#type is 
> deprecated; use Object#class

This is only a warning. It's easy to fix. Every occurence of type (not 
as local variable) should be replaced by self.class.

> => true
> irb(main):002:0> 
> 
> and if i try to apply the sheet on the test-data:
> 
> ram@lilith:~/src/tar/xslt4r-0.0.2/test$ls
> data.xml  stylesheet.xsl  stylesheet2.xsl  test.xml  test_style.xsl
> ram@lilith:~/src/tar/xslt4r-0.0.2/test$ruby -rxslt test_style.xsl test.xml
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/xpath.rb:10: warning: Object#type is 
> deprecated; use Object#class
> test_style.xsl:1: parse error

aha.... you're trying to run a XSLT file as Ruby code :-)

try this:

   ruby xslt.rb test_style.xsl test.xml

> is this version of xslt4r to old? 

it's quite old and uncomplete!

> Anyway, does anyone know an easy way to apply stylesheets with ruby without 
> having libxml, libxslt(C-Lib) installed? 

Regards,

   Michael