XML in Ruby syntax

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1

Recently I saw an announcement for an XML/HTML builder lib that
embedded the XML directly in Ruby code. What was it? I can't seem to
find it now.

Thanks,
T.

2

Recently I saw an announcement for an XML/HTML builder lib that
embedded the XML directly in Ruby code. What was it? I can't seem to
find it now.

Hi,

It was a post/email (I use the mailing list) from Michael Neumann on
September 15th at 12:13 AM (that's the date I received the email). I
have copied that email below. BTW, how do you guys find the link to
the archives for a specific thread?

Jesus.

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On 9/30/07, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/15/07, Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> wrote:

Hi,

While everyone embeds Ruby into HTML code nowadays, I thought why not
do it the other way round? Vim syntax highlighting included :slight_smile:

http://www.ntecs.de/hg-projects/xml_in_ruby/

Uh, and it's soo simple, and you get a lot of goodies for free (for
example you can split your templates into methods, or inherit from other
template classes etc.).

Regards,

   Michael

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XML in Ruby - Templating Engine
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ABOUT

   "XML in Ruby" is a simple templating engine that allows you to embed
   XML directly into Ruby.

EXAMPLE

   See sample.rbx.

       class MyView < View
         def index(title)
           <html>
             <head>
               <title>${title}</title>
             </head>
             <body>
               render_body
             </body>
           </html>
         end

         def render_body
           output "Hello World"
         end
       end

       puts MyView.render(:index, "Test")

   To start:

       ruby -r view -e "View.require 'sample.rbx'"

   Output:

       <html>
       <head>
       <title>Test</title>
       </head>
       <body>
       Hello World</body>
       </html>

   You can mix XML and Ruby. Everything that starts with "<" as
   fist non-whitespace character on a line is considered as XML.
   You can also use:

       <: This is text

   to output the text " This is text", or require other
   "templates" with:

       View.require 'another_template.rbx'

   In XML you can embed Ruby code with #{...} and ${...}. The second
   performs escaping.

3

I use the Google Group link. But the archives have different views,
providing the message number is enough for someone to quickly pull up
a post.

Thanks,

T.

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On Sep 30, 6:38 am, "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielyga...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

It was a post/email (I use the mailing list) from Michael Neumann on
September 15th at 12:13 AM (that's the date I received the email). I
have copied that email below. BTW, how do you guys find the link to
the archives for a specific thread?