From: Dave@...
Date: 2002-06-12T21:55:12+09:00
Subject: Ruby Weekly News


   Ruby Weekly News: 06/09/2002

   A summary of activity on the ruby-talk mailing list, brought to you
   this week by Holden Glova.

   ANNOUNCEMENTS
   =============

   PageTemplate 0.3.2
          Brian Wisti has announced a new release of his PageTemplate
          library. PageTemplate is used to create output based on
          template pages. This project was inspired from Sam Tregar's
          HTML::Template Perl package. Get PageTemplate([1]).

   Test::Mock 1.0
          Nat Pryce has released a new version of his popular Ruby/Mock
          framework which is compatible with Test::Unit. Test::Mock makes
          the creation and use of mock objects very simple. Get
          Test::Mock([2]) via CVS from the Ruby([3]) web site.

   REXML 2.3.5 and 2.2.3
          Sean Russel has announced two new versions of REXML. REXML is a
          XML parser written in Ruby. Get REXML([4]).

   INTERESTING THREADS
   ===================

   REXML a validating parser?
          Sean Russel asked who uses a validating parser? Who has needs
          for DTD validation, XMLSchema validation or RelaxNG validation?
          The general feeling in the Ruby community seems to be that
          validating parsers aren't such a big deal to have. The
          suggestion was put forward that if REXML was to be a validating
          parser that maybe it should allow for pluggable validators.

References

   1. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53220
   2. http://www.ruby-lang.org/~knu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/rough/lib/testmock/
   3. http://www.ruby-lang.org/
   4. http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml