From: Justin Bailey <jgbailey@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T06:08:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] XmlStruct-1.0.0 released

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Have you seen the xml builder project? It's along the same lines but gives =
a
much cleaner syntax. Your example could be done along these lines:

xml.GovTalkMessage :xmlns =3D> "http ..." { |xml|
  xml.EnvelopeVersion "2.0"
  xml.Header {
   xml.MessageDetails {
   etc, etc
   }
  }
}

Check it out http://rubyforge.org/projects/builder/

On 3/22/06, NeilW <aldursys@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> XmlStruct
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/xmlstruct/
>
> Documentation
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>
> http://xmlstruct.rubyforge.org/
>
> About
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>
> XML Markup the simple way.
>
> I've uploaded a small library to Rubyforge that allows you
> to markup data using XML tags using direct Ruby assignment
> following the example of OpenStruct.
>
> The library supports attributes and simple text elements -
> all of which are XML escaped before output. The interface is
> designed to be as simple as possible, with the least amount
> of syntactic sugar. The general idea is that you mark up your
> flat data and output a string containing the markup.
>
> The system works best when you have a small amount of data,
> and a large amount of irritating XML structure to impose upon
> it. The class came about to allow me to quickly draw up XML
> messages to send to the UK Government Gateway. Boy can you
> tell that that schema was designed by committee.
>
> I hope that it finds some use somewhere.
>
> Usage
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>
> I hope the interface is intuitive. Very simply you use assignment
> commands, e.g
>
>     require 'rubygems'
>     require 'xml_struct'
>     @xmldoc =3D XmlStruct.new
>     @xmldoc.GovTalkMessage=3D{:xmlns =3D>
> "http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope"}
>     @xmldoc.GovTalkMessage.EnvelopeVersion=3D"2.0"
>     md=3D@xmldoc.GovTalkMessage.Header.MessageDetails
>     md.Class=3D"MAFF-IACS-AAPS2001"
>     md.Qualifier=3D"request"
>     md.Function=3D"submit"
>     md.CorrelationID
>     md.Transformation=3D"XML"
>     md.GatewayTimeStamp
>     @xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Keys.Key[0]=3D{:Type =3D> "VendorNumber"}
>     @xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Keys.Key[0]=3D275687
>     @xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Keys.Key[1]=3D{:Type =3D> "MainCPH"}
>     @xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Keys.Key[1]=3D"14/02/0327"
>     @xmldoc.GovTalkDetails.Body
>     print @xmldoc.to_s
>
> outputs
>
>     <GovTalkMessage xmlns=3D"http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/CM/envelope">
>     <EnvelopeVersion>2.0</EnvelopeVersion>
>     <Header>
>     <MessageDetails>
>     <Class>MAFF-IACS-AAPS2001</Class>
>     <Qualifier>request</Qualifier>
>     <Function>submit</Function>
>     <CorrelationID>
>     </CorrelationID>
>     <Transformation>XML</Transformation>
>     <GatewayTimeStamp>
>     </GatewayTimeStamp>
>     </MessageDetails>
>     </Header>
>     </GovTalkMessage>
>     <GovTalkDetails>
>     <Keys>
>     <Key Type=3D"VendorNumber">275687</Key>
>     <Key Type=3D"MainCPH">14/02/0327</Key>
>     </Keys>
>     <Body>
>     </Body>
>     </GovTalkDetails>
>
>
> Enjoy
> =3D=3D=3D
> Neil Wilson, Aldur Systems Ltd
>
>
>

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