From: paul vudmaska <paul_vudmaska@...>
Date: 2003-10-03T02:11:11+09:00
Subject: Re: xml in Ruby

>>>
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 From: Erik Terpstra <erik@terpnet.nl>
 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 00:26:52 +0900
 References: 83448
 In-reply-to: 83448
Last year I made a quick hack that could do something
like that.
I didn't have much experience with Ruby back then, so
it is a quick and 
very dirty solution. But the following works:


require 'XML'

y = XML %{
         <employees>
                 <employee>
                         <name>Joe</name>
                         <age>28</age>
                         <department>
                                
<name>Engineering</name>
                         </department>
                 </employee>
                 <employee>
                         <name>Ken</name>
                         <age>26</age>
                         <department>
                                
<name>Engineering</name>
                         </department>
                 </employee>
         </employees>
}

puts y.employees.employee[0].age
y.employees.employee[0].age = '9'
puts y.employees.employee[0].age

y.employees.employee.each do |employee|
         puts "name: #{employee.name}, age:
#{employee.age}"
end
--->

for my third cent, the above syntax 'just makes since'
to me. What could be more semantic than employee.name
without resorting to write your own class/accessors
for it? What's wrong with that being a fundamental
data acess fascility? call me crazy

:pv



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