From: senderista@... (Tobin Baker)
Date: 2001-09-17T13:01:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21275] Re: Ruby objects <-> XML: anyone working on this?

Very cool!  I'll have to check this out.  I wonder about the second
part of my question though -- is anyone working on a more 'Rubyish'
alternative to the DOM (which sucks as we all know)?


TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@open-news.com> wrote in message news:<20010916151218F.maki@open-news.com>...
> senderista@hotmail.com (Tobin Baker) wrote:
> > Are there any Ruby analogs of these two Python modules (xml_pickle,
> > xml_objectify)?  Couldn't find anything on the RAA.
> > 
> > xml_pickle:
> > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/xml-matters1/index.html
> > 
> > xml_objectify:
> > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/xml-matters2/index.html
> 
> How about XMarshal?
> 
> http://www.goto.info.waseda.ac.jp/~fukusima/ruby/xmarshal.html
> http://www.goto.info.waseda.ac.jp/~fukusima/ruby/xmarshal.rb
> 
> 
> ## xmarshal_sample.rb
> require 'xmarshal.rb'
> class Foo
>   def a(val)
>     @a = val
>   end
>   def b(val)
>     @b = val
>   end
>   def c(val)
>     @c = val
>   end
> end
> 
> foo = Foo.new()
> foo.a(1)
> foo.b("foo")
> foo.c([1,2,3,{"a"=>"b","c"=>"d"}])
> print XMarshal.dump(foo)
> 
> 
> Result:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <RubyObject version="1.0">
>   <Foo>
>     <a type="Integer">1</a>
>     <b>foo</b>
>     <c type="Array">
>       <Integer>1</Integer>
>       <Integer>2</Integer>
>       <Integer>3</Integer>
>       <Hash>
>         <String key="a">b</String>
>         <String key="c">d</String>
>       </Hash>
>     </c>
>   </Foo>
> </RubyObject>
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> TAKAHASHI 'Maki' Masayoshi     E-mail: maki@open-news.com