From: David Holroyd <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-02-16T22:23:04+09:00
Subject: Re: XML Builder - why?

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:33:27PM +0900, eastcoastcoder@gmail.com wrote:
> I see that a lot of Rubyists like using XML Builder to generate XML.
> why took this even further with markaby to generate HTML.
> 
> My question is: why?  In what way is Builder any easier, clearer, more
> succint than simpling using an ERB template?  I find that Builder is
> about the same length, with about the same structure, only introducing
> an extra conversion.  For what?

I like that the ruby parser checks the well-formedness of my markup for
me.


dave

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