From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-09-05T03:55:03+09:00
Subject: Re: configuration file parser like Config::General for perl



On Sep 4, 11:35 am, Tammo Tjarks <ta...@tammo-tjarks.de> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have the problem, that in a project I am working in the configuration
> files are in a apache config file like format. This is a mixture of
> XML-Format and normal config format like
> <id>
>   name example
>   use  "for test"
> <id>
>
> The normal used language is perl, where the format, with some extensions, is
> supported by the Config::General Package.
> Is the something similar existing for Ruby? I have already searched in
> rubyforge, but I could not find something fitting. Somehow xmldigest or
> digestr seems partly to fit, but I am unsure if they support the whole
> range of the config-file. Or are there some settings existing for the
> xml-libraries like rexml to support this uncomliant kind of XML?

I know nothing of the sort. However, if should be pretty easy to use
REXML to loop through the XML elements and apply a parser to each
sections text.

T.