From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-02-17T02:15:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] xx-2.0.0

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Tim Pease wrote:

> On 2/16/07, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> NAME
>> 
>>    xx
>> 
>> 
>
> For some reason I want a Mexican beer at lunch now ;)
>
> Clever use of method missing, though.  Can this package generate XML
> tags that contain a dash '-' character?
>
> TwP
>

harp:~ > cat a.rb
require "xx"
include XX::XML

legs = 1,2,3,4

doc = xml_{
   _('furniture:table'){
     legs.each do |leg|
       _ "furniture:leg-#{ leg }", leg
     end
   }
}

puts doc.pretty


harp:~ > ruby a.rb
     <?xml version='1.0'?>
     <furniture:table>
       <furniture:leg-1>1</furniture:leg-1>
       <furniture:leg-2>2</furniture:leg-2>
       <furniture:leg-3>3</furniture:leg-3>
       <furniture:leg-4>4</furniture:leg-4>
     </furniture:table>


cheers.

-a
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