From: avi@...4.com (Avi Bryant)
Date: 2002-01-31T04:24:18+09:00
Subject: Re: IOWA error and question

<ntalbott@rolemodelsoft.com> wrote in message news:<000001c1a9a3$e4d1c280$f601a8c0@abraham>...
> First of all, when I try to access IOWA pages (I've tried all the
> included examples), I'm getting an exception that I don't see addressed
> in the mail archives. It looks like this:

I've never seen that before (and can't replicate it) - the error is
the error given when you use a tag it doesn't recognize, but it should
certainly recognize <ul>.  If you print out the exception caught in
the rescue clause of Element.newElement that should give a little more
info.

Is the parse error always given for the first dynamic tag in the file
(ie the first with an oid attribute), for all the examples?

> My second question is more general: what's the state of IOWA? Will we
> see a more polished/stable release before too long? Or has development
> been dropped?

I wrote something about this a while back.  The good news is, there
will be a new release of IOWA quite soon.  The bad news is, it won't
be in Ruby (ducks and runs).  I've been working in Squeak smalltalk
for the last little while and put my effort into a port of IOWA to
that platform.  However, Michael Neumann expressed some interest in
taking my Squeak work and porting it back to Ruby (a lot of polishing
went into the port).  I don't know how much, if any, of this he has
done.  I am *very* interested in seeing this happen, so if anyone's
interested in helping Michael I'm sure he could use it, but I don't
have the cycles to do it myself.