From: pc000@... (PaulC)
Date: 2001-12-20T07:08:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28999] Re: Ruby and XML

"James Britt (rubydev)" <james@rubyxml.com> wrote in message news:<PGEPJIFLPEPOHCKEEEIKOEJICKAA.james@rubyxml.com>...
> The sablot package (http://www.rubycolor.org/sablot/) is a Ruby binding to the Sablotron
> XSLT library (http://www.rubycolor.org/sablot/).  I've not used it much with Ruby as I had
> problems getting it built on a particular remote machine.  I have used Sablotron though
> PHP and (as I recall) it's fairly robust. To use it you will need to compile the source
> code.  You will also need to get and build expat (http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/)
> 

One of the limitations with Sablotron is the requirement to re-parse the 
data - it would be nice to have a solution where you could apply an XSLT 
transform to an in-memory XML tree structure without serialising/
de-serialising - one of the major advantages of the Gnome libxml/libxslt l
ibs is that they supports this model. It would be a good thing if whatever 
standard for a Ruby parser emerges also allowed this - given the effort i
nvolved to create a complaint XSLT implementation the best approach would
probably be to be able to take a Ruby tree representation and write this 
directly to a Sablot/libxslt tree and apply the transform.

PaulC