From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-09-27T21:34:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Embedded Ruby and Tag Libs

Adam Van Den Hoven wrote:

> That's excellent.

Thanks.

> Now "all" we need is a parser to convert
>
> <av_table> ...</av_table>
>
> into
>
> av_table do ... end

You're on your own for that one. I don't really see the light of making 
them XML tags, myself, outside of that they're punctuationally cleaner 
in this example. It doesn't seem to me like "web developers" are going 
to have any more difficulting learning the second syntax than the first.

It was pretty wacky to write that thing, though. I can see the benefit 
of a higher-order abstraction in a templating language, but I doubt 
you're going to find that in ERb any time soon, as it caters to much 
more than HTMLers.

You might want to take a look at Amrita. It takes an entirely different 
approach to your problem, but does solve it. http://amrita.sourceforge.jp/

Devin