Hi all,
I trying to use a Ruby XML binding tool. XAMPLE seems the only
choice.
The last update for this project http://rubyforge.org/projects/xampl/
is at Nov, 2005. Is this project dead?
Or could you suggest another xml binding lib?
Cheers!
Xin Zhao
Hi,
Hi all,
I trying to use a Ruby XML binding tool. XAMPLE seems the only
choice.The last update for this project http://rubyforge.org/projects/xampl/
is at Nov, 2005. Is this project dead?
No it isn't, though I can understand how you might get that impression 
I haven't been exactly evangelising it.
BTW, I'm the guy that wrote it.
There are a few people using it, not many.
The documentation is rudimentary, mostly a walk-through tutorial, though that's been enough to get people going and keep them going -- it would probably help if you knew Ruby reasonably well, especially what monkey-patching is and how modules can be used to approximate multiple inheritance. There are a bunch of postings on my weblog (link below, not the tumblelog) -- there is a category for them. I'm going to have to re-format them at some point, maybe I should do that today.
I've used it as a replacement for ActiveRecord, in several Rails and Merb products, and a lot of utilities that I use every day. I'm able to whip off a fairly complex program in Ruby very quickly. There is also a Java version that is being used in a number of systems. There's even a Common Lisp version that I'm overhauling right now.
There is a bit of history to xampl. It started as a Java project for me to learn how to use a SAX parser, this was a couple of days after James Clark's parser came out for Java -- maybe 10 years ago. It has grown through several stages starting with a re-formatter for XML, through to one of the first XML binding tools. It doesn't take the same point of view as any of the other binding tools that I know of. For two *big* reasons: it does not use a schema; it has definite opinions about how you should be designing your XML. There are big implications to this, some of which I'm just recently understanding... maybe a blog post is in order.
If you have any questions about it, I'll be happy to answer them. Perhaps I should release another version of xampl, it has come along quite nicely since that release.
Cheers,
Bob
On 16-Nov-07, at 5:35 AM, zxem wrote:
Or could you suggest another xml binding lib?
Cheers!
Xin Zhao
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