From: Edward Faulkner <ef@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T03:07:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating Ruby Classes from XSD?

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Sometimes you don't control the source of the information.  If someone
is sending you XML documents and provides you with a schema,
hard-coding your own class to match the schema is just unnecessary
repetition.

In the spirit of DRY, it's better to generate your class on the fly.
This allows you to instantly adapt to future schema changes, too.  I
have written such an application (but not in Ruby), and it's much
nicer than what it replaced.

In Ruby it would be really easy to do.  REXML + metaprogramming and
you're done.

-Ed

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