From: james@...
Date: 2002-05-07T10:23:26+09:00
Subject: RE: tags for embedded ruby



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Allen [mailto:bigredlinux@yahoo.com]
> Subject: tags for embedded ruby
 
> 
> After reading endless xml books and watching all of these languages
> like perl, python and ruby go the way of PHP and make embedding code
> within html possible, I don't understand why the standards for xml
> processing instructions are not followed.  It seems like it could be
> endlessly flexible since the language could come up with its own
> constructs while still following the recommended standard.  This
> allows scripts written with embedded code to be valid xml and more
> appropriate when having to store the data as xml documents.  Examples
> would be as follows
> 
> <?rb puts "hello world"?> ruby
> <?py print "hello word",?>  python
> <?perl print "hello world"?> perl



Have you seen ruby-tmpl?  It uses PIs for template instructions. 


James