From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-08-01T04:54:57+09:00
Subject: Re: humanized Xml tree navigation

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> writes:

> 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��</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

Just make the API more flexible:

document["vocab-item"].bla["second.form"]

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