From: Chris Gehlker <canyonrat@...>
Date: 2006-07-31T22:35:49+09:00
Subject: Re: humanized Xml tree navigation


On Jul 31, 2006, at 6:16 AM, chiaro scuro wrote:

> Does anybody know of a library that allows to go through an xml  
> tree as if
> it were made of normal objects?
>
> I have seen e4x on rubyforge, but it doesn't seem to work.  
> simplexml returns
> hashes rather than employing dynamic method calls
>
> What I need to do is to be able to traverse an xml document as in:
>
> * people.each_person {...}
> * people.person[2].name
> * people.person.name              #takes the first person
> * people.person.size
>
> etc..
>
> Any suggestion?
>

Look here:
<http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/>

or here:
<http://cvs.m17n.org/~akr/htree/>
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