From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-10-03T09:48:29+09:00
Subject: Re: xml + ruby = happy programmer

In article <20031002225021.59665.qmail@web10406.mail.yahoo.com>,
paul vudmaska  <paul_vudmaska@yahoo.com> wrote:
>--- James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@seemyemail.com> wrote:
>> paul vudmaska wrote:
>
>#(presuming %x creates an xml literal.)
>x = %x{<m><l>is your friend</l></m>}
>
>#access it like this...
>print x.m.l #>is your friend
>

Why the lucky stiff made a patch to do something like this with YAML using 

From his site (http://whytheluckystiff.net):
"%y:

 %y{ ... }

I've been having a lot of fun with this Ruby 1.8.0 hack. This patch adds 
the %y{ ... } construct to Ruby. This way, you can embed YAML directly in 
your Ruby script.

basic_map = %y{
  --- !omap
  - one: foo
  - two: bar
  - three: baz
}

Kinda cool, eh?

Try:

patch -p1 -d ~/src/ruby-1.8.0 < ruby-1.8.0-yamlstr.patch"