Thanks for the link Ben, this is another interesting way to go about it. I have one problem with it though, it's very ambiguous. There is no structure to the data, how do I know where a tag starts or ends? What is contained in each?
Sean Ben Bangert wrote: >I also don't find STAN syntax to be clean. I see you're point about >generating XML, vs parsing it which the Amara toolset definitely seems >better for. I think you missed a tool though that does make creating >XML very nice using Python operator overloading, jaxml >(http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/jaxml/action_Presentation). > >The largest problem I see with the class based approach is that classes >really have little to do with this as you're not maintaining state or >using instance methods. The classes are there solely to try and get the >syntax a little prettier, which I think jaxml does a great job of doing >without arbitrary classes that are thrown away purely to make some XML. > >Your example with jaxml: >import jaxml >doc = jaxml.XML_document() >doc.people() >doc.person() >doc.name("Someone") >doc.age("20") >doc.birthday("11-10-70") >doc.output() > >Besides for the use of classes, the main problem I see with using them >to create XML is when you have deeply nested XML structures and having >a dozen nested class creations for even slightly larger XML documents >is going to be nightmarish. > >I don't think jaxml is necessarilly the best tool out there, but it >does make it very quick and easy to throw together XML which is >apparently your goal. If it's missing something, perhaps that could be >added to it? > >Cheers, >Ben > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
