From: Jari Williamsson <jari.williamsson@...>
Date: 2007-11-22T23:06:55+09:00
Subject: Re: XML to Ruby?

Rolando Abarca wrote:

> some time ago, I built a small class to do that, you can check it here:
> 
> http://rolando.cl/xmlable/src/xmlable.rb
> http://rolando.cl/xmlable/src/test.rb
> http://rolando.cl/xmlable/doc/index.html

Thanks, but this seems to only make XML data accessible to an existing 
class?
It seems like I need to specify a bit better what I need: I'm looking 
for a utility that will _generate_ Ruby code (classes) from a 
hierarchical XML file.

Let's say this is the XML data:
mymodule.xml
======
<root>
    <sub id="1">Some data</sub>
    <sub id="2>Some more data</sub>
</root>

The utility would then generate 2 .rb module files, such as:

root.rb:
======
require 'mymodule/sub'
module MyModule
class Root < SomeBaseClass
     attr_accessor :sub_elements   # Array
     # Some more stuff
end

sub.rb:
======
module MyModule
class Sub < SomeBaseClass
    attr_accessor :id
    # Some more stuff
end
end

The more I think about it, this kind of utility probably is required to 
analyze the DTD rather than the XML to get the proper relationships. Any 
such utility available?


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson