From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2003-10-03T08:16:58-07:00
Subject: Re: xml + ruby


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Austin Ziegler (austin@halostatue.ca) wrote:

> There's further confusion if you had:
>=20
>   <list><item>1</item><item>2</item><item>3</item></list>
>=20
> How would I refer to each individual item: list.item[0] through
> list.item[2]? If the <list> tag also allowed for CDATA values,
> there's nothing in the XML spec that would prevent:
>=20
>   <list>cdata<item>1</item>cdata<item>2</item>cdata</list>

Ruby <--> XML seems to be a poor fit, it seems XML will quickly
become too verbose with all the exceptions and having to resort to
XPath (I've seen several posts that say "oh, we'll have to use XPath for
that", and that wouldn't make me very happy).  Ruby <--> RDF would
be a better fit, especially if used as a serialization format.

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