From: chiaro scuro <kiaroskuro@...>
Date: 2006-08-01T00:27:23+09:00
Subject: Re: humanized Xml tree navigation

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uhm.. I admit I didn't think of that.  I guess I will have to write some
kind of name normalized/denormalizer taking care of dots and hyphens.

all hyphens and dots will become underscores, I guess, and I'll just assume
nobody will try to get the code to fail using both at the same time :-)
nobody will, right?


On 7/31/06, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 6:16 AM, chiaro scuro wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Consider
>
> <vocab-item>
>    <first.form>foo</first.form>
>    <second.form>f=F6=F6</second.form>
> </vocab-item>
>
> That's legal XML.  Ruby n00b question: can you work around problems
> like "vocab-item" and "first.form" in Ruby?  -Tim
>
>


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