Xampl project - Is it still alive

Ruby
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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

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Hi,

On 16-Nov-07, at 5:35 AM, zxem wrote:

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 :slight_smile: 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

Or could you suggest another xml binding lib?

Cheers!

Xin Zhao

Bob H. – tumblelog at
http://www.recursive.ca/so/
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