From: Oliver Beddows <oliver-b@...>
Date: 2002-03-31T23:57:42+09:00
Subject: Creating ruby based web applications

Hi,
I am looking at using ruby for creating web applications.

And I'm trying to achieve the following:
ruby object(s) -> xml document -> xslt processor -> xhtml

The bit I'm a bit unsure about is the creating the xml document. 
In PHP I used the WDDX extension to serialize / marshal my xml documents.

<?php
$packet = wddx_packet_start();
wddx_add_vars($packet, "object1");
wddx_add_vars($packet, "object2);
wddx_add_vars($packet, "object3");
$packet = wddx_packet_end($packet);
?>

Which gave me an xml document, which I'd then process using sablotron.
I am aware of the SOAP4R and XMLRPC ruby packages.  Can they be used
to the same effect? Also in case you are wondering, the reason I need to this 
is to seperate my applications into several units i.e. Model View Controller.

Cheers,
oliver@jellytone.com