From: Sean Chittenden <sean@...>
Date: 2002-05-07T10:37:57+09:00
Subject: Re: 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. 

And is about to get a rewrite into C here in the not too distant
future... :~)  -sc

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Sean Chittenden