From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-01-25T12:44:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] xx-0.1.0 : xhtml and xml make it twice as dirty

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, James Britt wrote:
> 
>> mental@rydia.net wrote:
...

>>> Out of curiousity, how does this compare with markaby?
>>
>>
>> Or the XML Builder in Nitro, which has a similar syntax?
> 
> 
> hmm.  i think the implimentation is better ;-)
> 
> seriously - i have a big problem with blanket method_missing like those 
> used
> in the nitro and rails xml builders - they make debugging an absolute
> nightmare that reminds me of perl.  by using a simple rule : tag methods 
> end
> in underscore, i can delegate to the default method missing in cases 
> where a
> mere typo was made.  eg.  in nitro
> 
>   foo
> 
> will output
> 
>   <foo></foo>

Thanks for the details.  This looks really quite slick.



James