From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-10-04T04:07:12+09:00
Subject: Re: xml + ruby

On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 03:03:55 +0900, Zach Dennis wrote:
> Are the people on this thread suffering from a case of programmatic
> idealism, underuse or misuse of rexml or is rexml lacking some of the
> things mentioned on this thread?

My response was based solely on an API suggested by Paul Vudmaska in a 
previous thread. I have used REXML in "DOM-mode" and been pleasantly 
surprised with how easy it is to use; I haven't yet wrapped my head around 
SAX (stream) mode, so I can't say how easy that is to use.

REXML pretty much does what you suggested it should, and I think that it's a 
very good API. What was being asked for is the automatic transformation of 
an XML document to a dotted-notation "object" hierarchy.

Feasible, but it only works for DOM documents that don't contain attributes 
or the possibility of interleaving text nodes.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.10.03
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