From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-08-06T13:11:57+09:00
Subject: Re: magic/xml library for easy XML processing


Zed Shaw wrote:
> 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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