From: Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2006-08-06T12:29:59+09:00
Subject: Re: magic/xml library for easy XML processing

On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 10:17 +0900, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Some of you may be interested in a new library for XML processing.
> It is inspired by languages designed just for XML-processing like CDuce
> and to some extend by Perl's XML::Twig. Basically easy things
> should be easy, and everything should be integrated very tightly
> with Ruby.
<snip>

> doc = XML.from_url "http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/atom.xml"
> doc.children(:entry).children(:link) {|c|
>    print "#{c[:title]}\n#{c[:href]}\n\n" if c[:rel] == "alternate"
> }
> 

I'd like to have it work like Hpricot as well:

(doc/:entry/:link).each do {|c|
...
}

Especially considering you overload [] to get attributes, why not / to
get children?


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