From: Aleksi <foobar@...>
Date: 2005-04-12T19:19:43+09:00
Subject: Re: groovy-like xml selection

Aleksi wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
>> "Luke Graham" <spoooq@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> Ive taken a quick look at groovy for the first time, and saw an
> Effectively you can write code like given in example
> at http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kaniemel/SimpleXML/doc/
> 
>    xml = SimpleXML.load(xml_string)  # or File
>    puts xml.movie[0].plot            # => "\n    Whether you..."
> 
> I have currently no plans to go forward with it, but I've been pondering 
> if there should be generic API for accessing and modifying and 
> underlying implementations over whatevery DOM traversal API is present 
> be it REXML or any of the 15 libraries out there :).

I just wanted to note there has already been Jim Weirich's Builder 
around for half a year. With it one can build XML easily, in Groovy 
style I reckon.

    http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/BuilderObjects.rdoc

    - Aleksi